Scattering, Absorbance, and Interfering Fluorescence

The fraction of light (expressed as percent) transmitted a particular distance into the medium is an exponential function of the effective attenuation coefficient, in a manner analogous to Beer s law  

The author is grateful for support from the U.S. Office of Naval Research and the University of Maryland Designated Research Initiative Fund. 

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