Stokes-Mueller correlation calculus

Olga Korotkova; Jyrki Laatikainen; Ari Friberg; Tero Setälä

doi:10.1117/12.2610165

4 March 2022 Stokes-Mueller correlation calculus

Olga Korotkova, Jyrki Laatikainen, Ari Friberg, Tero Setälä

Proceedings Volume 11963, Polarized Light and Optical Angular Momentum for Biomedical Diagnostics 2022; 1196303 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2610165
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2022, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Interaction of light with extended random and/or complex media, such as biological tissue samples, involves continuous changes in coherence and polarization of the propagating beams. Therefore, the classic Stokes-Mueller calculus based on the local (single-point) transformation on the order of intensity (not field) cannot completely and uniquely characterize such interaction. We suggest to use generalization of the Stokes-Mueller calculus to two-point field correlations in which both the Stokes vector and the Mueller matrix remain real-valued. We also envision that the proposed generalization will enable the unique solution of the inverse problems relating to soft biological sample characterization from polarimetric measurements.

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Olga Korotkova, Jyrki Laatikainen, Ari Friberg, and Tero Setälä "Stokes-Mueller correlation calculus", Proc. SPIE 11963, Polarized Light and Optical Angular Momentum for Biomedical Diagnostics 2022, 1196303 (4 March 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2610165

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