2004/12/17 by Andrea Aiello, A. Aiello, Aiello, A. +2 · 1 citation
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry #Surface Roughness and Optical Measurements #math-ph #math.MP
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math-ph/0412061
V3: some additions, 66 pages, 1 figure
openalex publication_date 2004/12/17 · arxiv created 2006/03/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We give a self-contained exposition of some mathematical aspects of the Mueller-Stokes formalism. In the first part we review some basic notions of linear algebra and establish a proper notation. In the second part we introduce the Mueller-Stokes formalism and derive some useful mathematical relation between physical quantities. Finally a useful decomposition theorem is reviewed.