An Up-to-Date Compendium on the Physics and Mathematics of Polarization Phenomena
Now thoroughly revised, Polarized Light and the Mueller Matrix Approach cohesively …

Unlike optical elements, medium such as tissue usually has several polarization properties
simultaneously. So it is desirable to identify the existence of types of optical behaviors and …

Depolarization has been found to be a useful contrast mechanism in biological and medical
imaging. The Mueller matrix can be used to describe polarization effects of a depolarizing …

Mueller matrix polarimetry is a powerful optical technique for characterization of both
anisotropic and bianisotropic materials. This review emphasizes methods for the …

This work compares the reflection optical response of a homogeneous sample with natural
optical activity with the Bragg reflection from an inhomogeneous system consisting of a …

Optical activity is a fundamental effect of electrodynamics that was discovered more than
200 years ago. While optical activity is typically recognized by the rotation of the polarization …

We present a novel depolarization metric for Mueller matrices based on the differential
Mueller formalism. The proposed metric relies on the statistical interpretation of the …

Mueller matrix polarimetry is being increasingly applied to the biomedical field with the
purpose of obtaining microstructural information on biological samples such as tissues …

The chirality of a medium is typically measured either by transmitting a beam of light through
it or by single or multiple interface reflection at large and/or special angles of incidence. We …

The optical properties of thin films are generally determined by direct photometric quantities.
We show that additional insight into the properties of anisotropic thin films can be obtained …