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Explicit algebraic characterization of Mueller matrices

Optics Letters, 2014
A general explicit algebraic characterization of Mueller matrices is presented in terms of the non-negativity of a set of leading principal minors of the coherency matrix C(A) associated with the arrow form M(A) of a given Mueller matrix M. This result is also formulated through a set of four characteristic Stokes vectors.
JOSÉ J Gil, Ignacio SAN JOSÉ
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Alternative depolarization criteria for Mueller matrices

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision, 2010
It is shown that the currently used depolarization criteria of Gil and Bernabeu [Opt. Acta 33, 185 (1986)] and Cloude [Optik (Stuttgart) 75, 26 (1986)] may produce erroneous results when applied to a special class of Mueller matrices. Alternative criteria, based on the Lorentz singular values of the Mueller matrix, are proposed.
Razvigor Ossikovski
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Poincaré sphere mapping by Mueller matrices

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision, 2013
By using the symmetric serial decomposition of a normalized Mueller matrix M [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 26, 1109 (2009)] as a starting point and by considering the reciprocity property of Mueller matrices, the geometrical features of the Poincaré sphere mapping by M are analyzed in order to obtain a new parameterization of M in which the 15 representative ...
Razvigor Ossikovski, JOSÉ J Gil, Ignacio SAN JOSÉ   +2 more
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Measurement of Mueller matrices

Applied Optics, 1992
A technique that allows Mueller matrix components to be measured and involves the use of two phase modulators instead of the usual method that uses four modulators is discussed. It allows true matrix components to be measured instead of the ratio of sums of matrix components, which are measured using a single modulator.
Anderson, Richard A.
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Mueller and Kennaugh matrices in radar polarimetry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1994
This paper is concerned with the notions of the Mueller matrix and the Kennaugh (or Stokes scattering) matrix, that are commonly used in the field of radar polarimetry. Although these two matrices are quite similar, there exists a basic difference between them that seems to have been overlooked by a number of researchers, resulting in a great deal of ...
Guissard, Albert
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Mueller Matrices and Depolarization Criteria

Journal of Modern Optics, 1987
The question of whether a given Mueller matrix represents a deterministic or a non-deterministic system is analysed by means of a matrix condition. The possibility of replacing this matrix condition by a scalar condition is examined. It is shown that this is permissible only for those cases where a Hermitian matrix constructed from the Mueller matrix ...
Simon, R.
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Mueller matrices in fluorescence scattering

Optics Letters, 2012
A reappraisal of the 1929 analysis of luminescence by Soleillet reveals the form of the Mueller matrix for fluorescence scattering whose parameters are directly defined in terms of the now-familiar fluorescence anisotropy parameter. If the scattering analyte is optically active, it is further shown how fluorescence detected circular dichroism and ...
Oriol, Arteaga, Shane, Nichols, Bart, Kahr   +2 more
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Dealing depolarization of light in Mueller matrices with scalar metrics

Optik, 2010
© 2009 Elsevier GmbH. R. Espinosa-Luna and E.Bernabéu express their gratitude to CONACYT for the support provided for the realization of this work under project No.83182. E.
Eusebio Bernabeu
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A complete characterization of pre-Mueller and Mueller matrices in polarization optics

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 2010
The Mueller-Stokes formalism that governs conventional polarization optics is formulated for plane waves, and thus the only qualification one could require of a 4 x 4 real matrix M in order that it qualify to be the Mueller matrix of some physical system would be that M map Omega((pol)), the positive solid light cone of Stokes vectors, into itself.
Simon, BN, Simon, S, Mukunda, N, Gori, F, Santarsiero, M, Borghi, R, Simon, R   +6 more
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Serial–parallel decompositions of Mueller matrices

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 2012
The algebraic methods for serial and parallel decompositions of Mueller matrices are combined in order to obtain a general framework for a suitable analysis of polarimetric measurements based on equivalent systems constituted by simple components. A general procedure for the parallel decomposition of a Mueller matrix into a convex sum of pure elements ...
José J, Gil, Ignacio, San José, Razvigor, Ossikovski   +2 more
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