Abstract
To perform accurate, high-quality and traceable measurement of optical diffuse transmission, which is quantified using the bidirectional transmittance distribution function (BTDF), a new primary facility has been developed at the Physikalisch–Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the German metrology institute. This newly developed reference facility will complement the available calibration services and research facilities at PTB for regular reflectance and transmittance and diffuse reflectance. The performance of the new BTDF setup has been investigated in an internal comparison, where consistency of the results was achieved. A thorough uncertainty analysis results in a minimum combined standard (k = 1) uncertainty of about 0.8 %. Research on the accurate characterisation of the BTDF of samples with non-negligible lateral scattering is being carried out on this new setup. Some first results have shown that the measured BTDF value depends on the applied irradiation area size. An empirical model has been found to describe the diffuse transmission of such translucent samples with different scattering parameters.
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