Polarized radiative transfer in an aerosol medium

Polarized radiative transfer in a medium containing aerosols has been considered. The problem of determining the intensity and the degree of polarization of radiation emerging from a finite, plane medium, for the case of Rayleigh scattering with internal energy sources, is considered. A system of integral equations is obtained and solved by the Galerkin method. Parameters such as extinction, absorption and scattering coefficients are calculated using the Mie scattering theory for spherical particles. Average coefficients over different size distributions have been calculated. The degrees of polarization of the emerging radiation from homogeneous media with complex refractive indices are calculated for uniform and non-uniform internal sources.