Depolarization and Polarization Indices of an Optical System

Light Scattering by Small Particles

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A Depolarization Criterion in Mueller Matrices

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Light scattering by small particles

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Scattering Matrices and Reciprocity Relationships for Various Representations of the State of Polarization

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Accurate measurement of templates and imprinted grating structures using Mueller matrix ellipsometry

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Stokes–Mueller Matrix Polarimetry: Effective Parameters of Anisotropic Turbid Media: Theory and Application

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Mueller micropolarimeter for color imaging of aluminum metasurfaces

Nicolas, M., Soumahoro, I., Zhang, L., Guida, G., de Marcillac, W. D., Demaille, D., Schwob, C., Boujday, S., & Gallas, B. (2021) · Journal of the Optical Society of America B · doi:10.1364/josab.416833 · Cited by 2

Depth-sensitive instrument for Mueller matrix imaging measurements

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Disordered nano-islands enabled high-performance one-shot full-Stokes polarimeters

Hou, S., Huang, S., Yang, X., Zhao, H., Ma, W., Wu, M., Du, J., Sun, S., Peng, J., & Hou, Y. (2026) · Optics Communications · doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2026.133206 · Cited by 1

Characterization of inhomogeneous samples by spectroscopic Mueller polarimetry

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Reducing symmetric polarization aberrations in a molded glass lens by annealing

Chipman, R. A., & Wolfe, J. E. (2005) · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · doi:10.1117/12.618198 · Cited by 1

Characterization of natural and irradiated nails by means of the depolarization metrics

Savenkov, S. N., Priezzhev, A. V., Oberemok, Y. A., Sholom, S. V., Kolomiets, I. A., & Chunikhina, K. (2016) · Journal of Biomedical Optics · doi:10.1117/1.jbo.21.7.071108 · Cited by 1

Polarimetric parameters associated to special microstructured fibers

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Mueller matrix bidirectional reflectance distribution function measurements and modeling of textured silicon surfaces

Germer, T. A., Foldyna, M., Mrázková, Z., Fischer, G., & Drahi, E. (2016) · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · doi:10.1117/12.2236976 · Cited by 1

Retrieval of the non-depolarizing components of depolarizing Mueller matrices by using symmetry conditions and least squares minimization

Kuntman, E., Canillas, A., & Arteaga, O. (2016) · Applied Surface Science · doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.11.236 · Cited by 1

Assessment of skin fibrosis using Mueller matrix polarimetry

Sharma, B. S. M., & Sujatha, N. (2018) · International Conference on Microwave and Photonics · doi:10.1109/icmap.2018.8354544 · Cited by 1

Light depolarization by inhomogeneous linear birefringent media

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Mueller Matrices

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Parameterizing depolarizing Mueller matrices of anisotropic media – a review

Gao, W. (2023) · Waves in Random and Complex Media · doi:10.1080/17455030.2023.2253310 · Cited by 1

Mueller-Polarimetry of Barley Leaves I: Depolarization Metrics

Savenkov, S. N., Oberemok, Y. A., Kolomiets, I. A., & Muttiah, R. S. (2023) · Photonics · doi:10.3390/photonics10121361 · Cited by 1

Short-wave infrared Mueller matrices and polarization parameters for in vivo skin surface reflectance

Li, L. S. Y., & Chipman, R. A. (2018) · SPIE Conference on Polarization: Measurement, Analysis, and Remote Sensing · doi:10.1117/12.2305279 · Cited by 1

Polarization characteristics of dark-field microscopic polarimetric images of human colon tissue

Fujii, T., Yamasaki, Y., Saito, N., Sawada, M., Narita, R., Saito, T., Durko, H. L., Rice, F., Hutchens, G. V., Dominguez-Cooks, J., et al. (2019) · Label-free Biomedical Imaging and Sensing (LBIS) · doi:10.1117/12.2509000 · Cited by 1

Light depolarization based on dispersion degree of polarization

Zou, K., Miao, L., Guofa, W., Bi, R., Chen, K., She, X., & Shu, X. (2020) · Applied Optics · doi:10.1364/ao.410293 · Cited by 1

Wide-field NIR imaging Mueller polarimetric system for tissue analysis

Gottlieb, D., Aguado, S., Gomis‐Brescó, J., Canillas, A., Pascual, E., & Arteaga, O. (2022) · Polarized Light and Optical Angular Momentum for Biomedical Diagnostics · doi:10.1117/12.2610002 · Cited by 1

Mueller Polarimetric Imaging for Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia Detection

Pierangelo, A., Novikova, T., Rehbinder, J., Nazac, A., & Vizet, J. (2022) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-04741-1_6 · Cited by 1

Synthetic Mueller Imaging Polarimetry

Gil, J. J., & José, I. S. (2023) · Photonics · doi:10.3390/photonics10090969 · Cited by 1

Active imagery under grazing incidence using polarization to detect and identify subsurface targets immersed in the draught zone

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Correction of depolarization effect in Mueller matrix ellipsometry with polar decomposition method

Li, W., Zhang, C., Jiang, H., Chen, X., Gu, H., & Liu, S. (2015) · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · doi:10.1117/12.2184786 · Cited by 1

Polarization sensitive OCT with needle probes

Villiger, M., Lorenser, D., Quirk, B. C., Kirk, R. W., Lippok, N., Bouma, B. E., McLaughlin, R. A., & Sampson, D. D. (2015) · IEEE Photonics Conference · doi:10.1109/ipcon.2015.7323482

Depolarization properties of the normal human fovea measured by the GDx-MM

Lam, W.-S. T., Chipman, R. A., Twietmeyer, K. M., Zhou, Y., Denninghoff, K. R., Elsner, A. E., & Burns, S. A. (2009) · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · doi:10.1117/12.828480

LC cell response time improvement for polarization control application

Bras, S. L., & Lehaître, M. (1992) · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · doi:10.1117/12.60401

Depolarization properties of the normal human fovea

Lam, W.-S. T., Chipman, R. A., Twietmeyer, K. M., Zhou, Y., Denninghoff, K. R., Elsner, A. E., & Burns, S. A. (2009) · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · doi:10.1117/12.809657

Depolarization effect of bandwidth in Mueller matrix imaging polarimetry

Du, W., Zhang, C., Chen, X., Li, W., & Liu, S. (2014) · Classical Optics 2014 · doi:10.1364/cosi.2014.cw4c.5

Improved Depolarization Imaging in Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography

Ortega-Quijano, N., Marvdashti, T., & Bowden, A. K. (2016) · Biomedical optics · doi:10.1364/cancer.2016.jtu3a.18

Selective optical scattering characterisation of tissue malignancy using Mueller matrix polarimetry: a simulation study

Fathima, A., & Sujatha, N. (2016) · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · doi:10.1117/12.2227972

Polarimetry of Man-Made Objects

Savenkov, S. N. (2016) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-662-49538-4_9

Optical Characterization of GaAs Nanowires Using Specular Mueller Matrix Ellipsometry

Storås, C. A. (2015) · BIBSYS Brage (BIBSYS (Norway))

Characterization of irradiated nails in terms of depolarizing Mueller matrix decompositions

Savenkov, S. N., Priezzhev, A. V., Oberemok, Y. A., Sholom, S. V., & Kolomiets, I. A. (2017) · Frontiers of Optoelectronics · doi:10.1007/s12200-017-0727-3

Physically Realizable Parallel Decompositions of Experimentally Determined Mueller MatricesPreprint

José, I. S., & Gil, J. J. (2019) · Preprints.org · doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0347.v1

Merit functions and measurement schemes for single parameter depolarization modelsPreprint

Li, L. S. Y., & Kupinski, M. K. (2021) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2104.04081

Stokes–Mueller formalism of spectrally-resolved transmitted light in an artificial opal

Sahani, P., & Vijaya, R. (2021) · Journal of Optics · doi:10.1088/2040-8986/ac287a

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Imagerie polarimétrique active par brisure d'orthogonalité

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Advanced metrology for multiple electron beam lithography

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Depolarization index and the average degree of polarization

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Polar forms of Mueller matrices of nondepolarizing optical systems

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