Propagation of light in homogeneous anisotropic medium: generalized differential Mueller matrix

摘要

On the basis of the generalized integral Mueller matrix of homogeneous anisotropic medium (Mar'enko and Savenkov, Optics and Spectroscopy, 76, 94-96, 1994; Savenkov, Chapter 4 in "From spectroscopy to remotely sensed spectra of terrestrial ecosystems," R.S. Muttiah, Eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2002) it is derived the correspondent differential Mueller matrix. The example of utilizing of the differential Mueller matrix for a phase medium to an approximation of linear dependence of anisotropy parameters from coordinate in propagation direction is presented.