Photon diffusion

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Photon diffusion refers to a situation where photons travel through a material with a high optical depth and very short mean free path. Their behavior is then dominated by scattering and the path of any given photon is effectively a random walk. A large ensemble of such photons can be said to exhibit diffusion in the material, described accurately with a diffusion equation.

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