Notes on Polarization Measurements

2005/03/14 by A. Aiello, Aiello, A., J. P. Woerdman +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0503124

9 pages, no figures

arxiv created 2005/03/14 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We review a few useful concepts about polarization measurements in the quantum domain. Using a perfectly general formalism, we show how to build the quantum counterpart of some classical quantities like Stokes parameters and Mueller matrices, which are well known in classical polarization-measurement theory.

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