Transmittance constraints in serial decompositions of depolarizing Mueller matrices: the arrow form of a Mueller matrix

• Published in: Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision Vol. 30; no. 4; p. 701
• Main Author: Gil, José J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.04.2013

The passivity of the linear components in the main approaches for serial decompositions of depolarizing Mueller matrices [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A13, 1106 (1996); J. Opt. Soc. Am. A26, 1109 (2009)] is dealt with, and it is found that it is not always possible to perform such decompositions in terms of pas...