Advanced Jones calculus for the classification of periodic metamaterials

C Menzel, C Rockstuhl, F Lederer - Physical Review A, 2010 - APS
By relying on an advanced Jones calculus, we analyze the polarization properties of light
upon propagation through metamaterial slabs in a comprehensive manner. Based on …

Analytic inversion of the Mueller-Jones polarization matrices for homogeneous media

O Arteaga, A Canillas - Optics letters, 2010 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter we present the equations to calculate the six independent polarization effects of
an arbitrary normalized Mueller-Jones matrix corresponding to homogenous media. A …

Reversible twisting during helical hippuric acid crystal growth

AG Shtukenberg, J Freudenthal… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Crystals grow in the mind's eye by the addition of small units to a monolith each part of which
is in fixed translational relation to every other part. Here, it is shown that growth can induce …

Polarized Light Assessment of Complex Turbid Media Such as Biological Tissues Us-ing Mueller Matrix Decomposition

N Ghosh, M Wood, A Vitkin - Handbook of photonics for …, 2010 - taylorfrancis.com
Nirmalya Ghosh, Michael Wood, and Alex Vitkin Ontario Cancer Institute/Department of
Medical Biophysics University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada9. 1 …

Polarization birefringence measurements for characterizing the myocardium, including healthy, infarcted, and stem-cell-regenerated tissues

MFG Wood, N Ghosh, MA Wallenburg… - Journal of …, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Myocardial infarction leads to structural remodeling of the myocardium, in particular to the
loss of cardiomyocytes due to necrosis and an increase in collagen with scar formation …

Influence of the order of the constituent basis matrices on the Mueller matrix decomposition-derived polarization parameters in complex turbid media such as …

N Ghosh, MFG Wood, IA Vitkin - Optics Communications, 2010 - Elsevier
The influence of the multiplication order of the constituent basis matrices on the Mueller
matrix decomposition-derived polarization parameters in complex tissue-like turbid media …

Optimally clocked trim retarders

KL Tan, AJ Mache Jr - US Patent 7,714,945, 2010 - Google Patents
A trim retarder for a liquid crystal display based projection system including a light source, a
polarizer/analyzer, a liquid crystal display panel, and a projection lens, is clocked to an …

A complete characterization of pre-Mueller and Mueller matrices in polarization optics

BN Simon, S Simon, N Mukunda, F Gori, M Santarsiero… - JOSA A, 2010 - opg.optica.org
The Mueller-Stokes formalism that governs conventional polarization optics is formulated for
plane waves, and thus the only qualification one could require of a 4× 4 real matrix M in …

Mueller matrix polarimetry of anisotropic chiral media

O Arteaga Barriel - 2010 - diposit.ub.edu
Optical activity is one of the most fascinating phenomena revealed by polarized light. It is
observed when chiral materials interact with polarized electromagnetic beams and …

Canonical forms of depolarizing Mueller matrices

R Ossikovski - JOSA A, 2010 - opg.optica.org
It is shown that any depolarizing Mueller matrix can be reduced, through a product
decomposition, to one of a total of two canonical depolarizer forms, a diagonal and a non …