UTILIZATION OF MUELLER MATRIX FORMALISM TO OBTAIN OPTICAL TARGETS DEPOLARIZATION AND POLARIZATION PROPERTIES

摘要

Polarizationis an important property of several physical phenomena such as Rayleigh and Raman (High intensity Raman Interactions: A. Penzkofer, A. Lauberteau, and W. Kaiser, Progress in Quantum Electronics, 6) (1982) scattering (Multi-photon Scattering Molecular Spectroscopy, S. Kielich, Progress in Optics, E. Wolf(ed.) North-Holland, Amsterdam) (1983) or fluorescence (Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy, J. R. Lakowicz, Plenum Press) (1986) for example, but also for laser spectral lines (Laser Lines in Atomic Species, C. S. Willett, Progress In Quantum Electronics, 1) (1969). So, the polarimetric aspect for the propagation in media, such as fibres (Recent Progress in fibre optics, G. Cancellieri, F. Chiaraluce, Progress in Quantum Electronics, 18) (1994), the atmosphere And the sea (Light Scattering by Small Particles (Dover, New York, 1981), must be considered.