Utilization of Mueller matrix formalism to obtain optical targets depolarization and polarization properties

F Le Roy-Brehonnet, B Le Jeune - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 1997 - Elsevier
Polarization is an important property of several physical phenomena such as Rayleigh and
Raman (High intensity Raman Interactions: A. Penzkofer, A. Lauberteau, and W. Kaiser …

Experimental investigation of the speckle polarization for a polished aluminium sample

P Elies, B Le Jeune, F Le Roy-Brehonnet… - Journal of Physics D …, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
As speckles carry information about polarization, we have perfected a polarimeter using the
Stokes-Mueller formalism from which we exploit the matrix to analyse speckle polarization …

Analysis of depolarizing optical targets by Mueller matrix formalism

F Le Roy-Brehonnet, B Le Jeune… - Pure and Applied …, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
The polarizing and depolarizing properties of an optical system can be derived from the
experimental determination of its Mueller matrix. Constructing an algorithm to treat an …

Decomposition of Mueller matrices

RA Chipman, SY Lu - Wideband Interferometric Sensing and …, 1997 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present an algorithm which decomposes a Mueller matrix into a sequence of three
matrix factors: a diattenuator, followed by a retarder, then followed by a depolarizer. Those …

Homogeneous and inhomogeneous Sinclair and Jones matrices

E Lueneburg, WM Boerner - Wideband Interferometric Sensing …, 1997 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This contribution is concerned with the polarimetric characterization of monostatic
backscattering and anti-monostatic forward scattering (transmission) described by …

Method of extraction of the Mueller-Jones part out of an experimental Mueller matrix

SN Savenkov, VV Marienko - Optical Diagnostics of Biological …, 1997 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Properly measured experimental Mueller matrix contains complete information on
depolarization, anisotropy properties of studied object and on value of isotropic change of …

[PDF][PDF] Microwave-to-Optical Polarimetry: Basic Concepts

CR Objects - Proceedings of Conference on Progress In …, 1997 - apps.dtic.mil
Classification of Earth terrain components within a full polarimetric SAR image is one of the
many important applications of Radar Polarimetry. In this paper we consider the use of …