Experimental Monte Carlo Data for Light Scattering in Polystyrene Spheres

Experimental and simulated scattered light intensity distributions from a 30 mm cuvette illuminated with a 473 nm laser beam. The cuvette contained an aqueous dispersion of 0.5 µm polystyrene spheres at optical depths ranging from 0 to 15. David Frantz created this dataset, with simulations performed using Multi-scattering.

Use Cases

• Validate Monte Carlo simulation codes for light transport based on experimental intensity distributions.
• Study the relationship between optical depth and scattered light patterns based on the described OD 0-15 range.
• Benchmark inverse problem algorithms for particle sizing based on scattered light from 0.5 µm spheres.

Strengths

• Includes both experimental measurements and corresponding Multi-scattering simulations for direct comparison.
• Covers a defined range of optical depths (OD 0-15) for systematic analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

David Frantz via paperswithcode

Collection Method

Experimental measurement and Multi-scattering simulation.