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Maximum-likelihood estimation of Mueller matrices [PDF]

open access: yesOptics Letters, 2006
We show that the method of maximum-likelihood estimation, recently introduced in the context of quantum process tomography, can be applied to the determination of Mueller matrices characterizing the polarization properties of classical optical systems.
Andrea Aiello
exaly   +5 more sources

Depolarizing differential Mueller matrices [PDF]

open access: yesOptics Letters, 2011
The evolution of a polarized beam can be described by the differential formulation of Mueller calculus. The nondepolarizing differential Mueller matrices are well known. However, they only account for 7 out of the 16 independent parameters that are necessary to model a general anisotropic depolarizing medium.
Noe Ortega-Quijano   +1 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Characterization of passivity in Mueller matrices [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision, 2020
Except for very particular and artificial experimental configurations, linear transformations of the state of polarization of an electromagnetic wave result in a reduction of the intensity of the exiting wave with respect to the incoming one. This natural passive behavior imposes certain mathematical restrictions on the Mueller matrices associated with
Ignacio San José, José J Gil
exaly   +4 more sources

Extended Representation of Mueller Matrices

open access: yesPhotonics, 2023
The so-called arbitrary decomposition of a given Mueller matrix into a convex sum of nondepolarizing constituents provides a general framework for parallel decompositions of polarimetric interactions.
Ignacio San José, José J. Gil
doaj   +2 more sources

Design of Partial Mueller-Matrix Polarimeters for Application-Specific Sensors [PDF]

open access: yesSensors
At a particular frequency, most materials and objects of interest exhibit a polarization signature, or Mueller matrix, of limited dimensionality, with many matrix elements either negligibly small or redundant due to symmetry.
Brian G. Hoover, Martha Y. Takane
doaj   +2 more sources

Synthetic Mueller Imaging Polarimetry

open access: yesPhotonics, 2023
The transformation of the state of polarization of a light beam via its linear interaction with a material medium can be modeled through the Stokes–Mueller formalism.
José J. Gil, Ignacio San José
doaj   +1 more source

Singular Mueller matrices [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Optical Society of America A, 2016
Singular Mueller matrices play an important role in polarization algebra and have peculiar properties that stem from the fact that either the medium exhibits maximum diattenuation and/or polarizance, or because its associated canonical depolarizer has the property of fully randomizing, the circular component (at least) of the states of polarization of ...
Gil, Jose J.   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Loops and polarization in strong-field QED

open access: yesNew Journal of Physics, 2021
In a previous paper we showed how higher-order strong-field-QED processes in long laser pulses can be approximated by multiplying sequences of ‘strong-field Mueller matrices’.
Greger Torgrimsson
doaj   +1 more source

Optical Chirality Determined from Mueller Matrices

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
Optical chirality, in terms of circular birefringence and circular dichroism, is described by its electromagnetic and magnetoelectric material tensors, and the corresponding optical activity contributes to the Mueller matrix.
Hans Arwin   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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