Depolarizing mueller matrices: How to decompose them?

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 720-727

  Ossikovski, R ^a   Anastasiadou, M ^a   Hatit, S Ben ^a   Garcia Caurel, E ^a   Martino, A De ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILTERING; MATRIX SINGULARITIES; MUELLER; MUELLER MATRIXES; PHYSICAL REALIZABILITY;

DECOMPOSITION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

DEPOLARIZATION;

EID: 54849425426     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.200777793     Document Type: Article

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