The determinant of a Mueller matrix M plays an important role in both polarization algebra and the interpretation polarimetric measurements. While certain physical quantities encoded admit direct interpretation, understanding geometric significance (detM) requires specific analysis, performed this work by using normal form M, as well indices purity (IPP) canonical depolarizer associated with M....

A collinear backscattering Mueller matrix (CBMM) imaging system has clear advantages in the detection of bulk biological tissues, which are highly scattering and depolarizing. Due to double-pass configuration noise system, calibration a is usually complex poor accuracy. In this work, we propose an alternative modified eigenvalue method (ECM) based on equivalent standard sample. For better suppr...

The evolution of a polarized beam can be described by the differential formulation of Mueller calculus. The nondepolarizing differential Mueller matrices are well known. However, they only account for 7 out of the 16 independent parameters that are necessary to model a general anisotropic depolarizing medium. In this work we present the nine differential Mueller matrices for general depolarizin...