Basic Theoretical Methods in Microwave Plasma Polarimetry: Quasi-Isotropic Approximation, Stokes Vector Formalism and Complex Polarization Angle Method

1) Space Research Institute, Profsoyuznaya St. 82/34, Moscow 117997, Russia, 2) Institute of Physics, Maritime University of Szczecin, Waly Chrobrego 1/.,70-500 Szczecin, Poland, 3) Institute of Radio Astronomy, 4 Krasnoznamyonnaya St., Kharkov 61002, Ukraine, 4) Optical Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel 5) Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Wendelsteinstrasse D-17491, Germany.