Maximum-likelihood estimation of Mueller matrices

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 817-819

  Aiello, A ^a   Puentes, G ^a   Voigt, D ^a   Woerdman, J P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; MUELLER MATRIX; QUANTUM PROCESS TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 33645768391     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.000817     Document Type: Article

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