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: Received: 21 May 2019 / Approved: 23 May 2019 / Online: 23 May 2019 (07:41:51 CEST)
How to cite:
Kuntman, M.A.; Kuntman, A. Mueller Quaternion with Matrix Coefficients for Depolarizing and Nondepolarizing Media. Preprints.org2019, 2019050282. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201905.0282.v1.
Kuntman, M.A.; Kuntman, A. Mueller Quaternion with Matrix Coefficients for Depolarizing and Nondepolarizing Media. Preprints.org 2019, 2019050282. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201905.0282.v1.
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Kuntman, M.A.; Kuntman, A. Mueller Quaternion with Matrix Coefficients for Depolarizing and Nondepolarizing Media. Preprints.org2019, 2019050282. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201905.0282.v1.
Kuntman, M.A.; Kuntman, A. Mueller Quaternion with Matrix Coefficients for Depolarizing and Nondepolarizing Media. Preprints.org 2019, 2019050282. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201905.0282.v1.
Abstract
It is shown that a Mueller quaternion can be formulated as a quaternion with matrix coefficients, and this Mueller quaternion transforms the Stokes quaternion for depolarizing process as well as for nondepolarizing process. Mueller quaternion keeps track of the phase acquired by the Stokes quaternion and, in general, quaternion states of optical media comprises all properties of Jones, Mueller-Jones and Mueller matrices.
Keywords
Stokes vector; Mueller matrix; Jones matrix; depolarization; coherent; incoherent; quaternions
Subject
Physical Sciences, Optics and Photonics
Copyright:
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