Product decompositions of depolarizing Mueller matrices with negative determinants |
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Authors: | Razvigor Ossikovski Makrina Anastasiadou Antonello De Martino |
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Institution: | LPICM, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, 91128 Palaiseau, France |
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Abstract: | We show that the product decomposition of a depolarizing Mueller matrix (S.-Y. Lu, R.A. Chipman, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13 (1996) 1106) as well as the recently proposed reverse decomposition (R. Ossikovski, A. De Martino, Opt. Lett. 32 (2007) 689) need to be extended in order to account for Mueller matrices with negative determinants. The necessity of such an extension of the formalism is illustrated on experimentally determined Mueller matrices. The procedure of the modified decomposition formalism is explicitly described. |
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Keywords: | Polarization Mueller matrix Decomposition |
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