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Constraints on Mueller matrices of polarization optics

Applied Optics, 1993
The issue of physical realizability constraints on depolarizing scattering or imaging systems is addressed. In particular, the overpolarization problem, i.e., the problem of ensuring that the output degree of polarization is always smaller than (or equal to) unity, is discussed in detail.
A B, Kostinski, C R, Givens, J M, Kwiatkowski   +2 more
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Mueller matrices and the degree of polarization

Optics Communications, 1998
This article shows that only polarizers, retarders, and improper rotation Mueller matrices do not decrease the degree of polarization for any input Stokes vector. On the other hand, a Mueller matrix does not increase the degree of polarization for any input Stokes vector if and only if it has an unpolarized Stokes vector as eigenvector.
Shih-Yau Lu, Russell A. Chipman
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A Depolarization Criterion in Mueller Matrices

Optica Acta: International Journal of Optics, 1985
A necessary and sufficient scalar condition for a Mueller matrix M to describe a non-depolarizing optical system is obtained. By computing only one scalar parameter, it can be determined whether a given Mueller matrix M describes a non-depolarizing, or a depolarizing optical system.
José Jorge Gil, Eusebio Bernabeu
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Canonical forms of depolarizing Mueller matrices

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 2009
It is shown that any depolarizing Mueller matrix can be reduced, through a product decomposition, to one of a total of two canonical depolarizer forms, a diagonal and a non-diagonal one. As a consequence, depolarizing Mueller matrices can be divided into Stokes diagonalizable and Stokes non-diagonalizable ones.
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Classification of Depolarizing Mueller Matrices

Frontiers in Optics, 2006
Within the sixteen-dimensional space of Mueller matrices, nine degrees of freedom are associated with depolarization which can be visualized using Degree of Polarization Surfaces, and Maps.
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Operational Form of the Mueller Matrices

Journal of the Optical Society of America, 1969
This paper introduces an operational notation for the Mueller matrices that facilitates the analysis of systems using polarized light. The mathematical formalism presented here is based on rotations about three orthogonal axes of the Poincare sphere and exploits well-known mathematical properties of coordinate rotation.
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Spatial–angular Mueller matrices

Optics Communications, 2006
Arbitrary polarization changing devices are described within paraxial approximation by their action on the spatial angular Stokes parameters associated with the generalized rays of a Wigner formulation of wave optics. This approach leads to the introduction of generalized Mueller matrices being functions of the spatial and angular variables ...
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Mueller Matrices

2018
Russell A. Chipman, Wai-Sze Tiffany Lam, Garam Young   +2 more
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Mueller Matrices for Reflection and Transmission

2009
This excerpt gives a succinct explanation of Mueller Matrices for Reflection and Transmission.
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Parallel decompositions of Mueller matrices

2017
José J. Gil, Razvigor Ossikovski
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