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Differential description and irreversibility of depolarizing light-matter interactions

Julien Fade
Noe Ortega-Quijano

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The widely used Jones and Mueller differential polarization calculi allow non-depolarizing deterministic polarization interactions to be described in an efficient way. Recently, the differential Mueller formalism has been successfully extended to the case of depolarizing transformations. In this article, a stochastic differential Jones formalism is shown to provide a clear physical insight on light depolarization, which arises when the interaction of polarized light with a medium involves randomized anisotropic properties. Based on this formalism, several intrinsic depolarization metrics which naturally arise to efficiently characterize light depolarization in a random medium are presented, and an irreversibility property of depolarizing transformations is finally established.

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hal-01378767 , version 1 (10-10-2016)

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Julien Fade, Noe Ortega-Quijano. Differential description and irreversibility of depolarizing light-matter interactions. Journal of Optics, 2016, 18 (12), pp.125604. ⟨10.1088/2040-8978/18/12/125604⟩. ⟨hal-01378767⟩
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