[Gate-users] Absorption length in optical transport

[Jenny Nilsson]

Hello,
Yes I know. But if, for example, the absorption length is 300 cm then all optical photons will not travel 300 cm before being absorbed, the beam intensity will be 1/e after one absorption length.

What I'm interested in is when in the calculations is the distance an optical photon travels determined. Is the distance sampled from a probability distribution before the actual transport begins?

Best regards
Jenny



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7 jan 2013 kl. 20:00 skrev "Vesna Cuplov" <vesna.cuplov at gmail.com<mailto:vesna.cuplov at gmail.com>>:

Hello,

The absorption length is the distance the optical photon travels before being absorbed by the medium bulk.

vesna

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Jenny Nilsson <jenny.nilsson at radfys.gu.se<mailto:jenny.nilsson at radfys.gu.se>> wrote:
Hello forum,

I have a question regarding the absorption length used in the optical transport.

Is the distance an optical photon travels in a medium sampled before the transport begins? So, when the optical photon is transported through a medium it will be killed after travelling the sampled distance?

Best regards
Jenny Nilsson

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