Experimental validation of the symmetric decomposition of mueller matrices

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 831-842

  Fallet, Clément ^a   Pierangelo, Angelo ^a   Ossikovski, Razvigor ^a   De Martino, Antonello ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; GENERAL THEORY; MUELLER; MUELLER MATRIX; POLARIZATION COMPONENTS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 75249094038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000831     Document Type: Article

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