Depolarizing differential Mueller matrices

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10902/1730
ISSN: 1539-4794
ISSN: 0146-9592
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Ortega Quijano, NoéAutoridad Unican; Arce Diego, José LuisAutoridad Unican
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2011-07-01
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© 2011 Optical Society of America. This paper was published in Optics Express and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.002429. Systematic or multiple reproduction or distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.
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Optics Letters, 2011, 36(13), 2429-2431
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The Optical Society (OSA)
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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. In this work we present the nine differential Mueller matrices for general depolarizing media, highlighting the physical implications of each of them. Group theory is applied to establish the relationship between the differential matrix and the set of transformation generators in the Minkowski space, of which Lorentz generators constitute a particular subgroup.
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