LPICM, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, 91128 Palaiseau, France.
Opt Lett. 2011 Jun 15;36(12):2330-2. doi: 10.1364/OL.36.002330.
Azzam's differential matrix formalism [J. Opt. Soc. Am. 68, 1756 (1978)], originally developed for longitudinally inhomogeneous anisotropic nondepolarizing media, is extended to include depolarizing media. The generalization is physically interpreted in terms of means and uncertainties of the elementary optical properties of the medium, as well as of three anisotropy absorption parameters introduced to describe the depolarization. The formalism results in a particularly simple mathematical procedure for the retrieval of the elementary properties of a generally depolarizing anisotropic medium, assumed to be globally homogeneous, from its experimental Mueller matrix. The approach is illustrated on literature data and the conditions of its validity are identified and discussed.
阿扎姆的差分矩阵形式（[J. Opt. Soc. Am. 68, 1756 (1978)]），最初是为纵向非均匀各向异性非退偏介质开发的，现扩展到包括退偏介质。这种推广从介质的基本光学特性的平均值和不确定性，以及引入描述退偏的三个各向异性吸收参数的角度进行物理解释。该形式化方法为从实验 Mueller 矩阵中检索通常退偏各向异性介质的基本特性提供了一种特别简单的数学方法，假设该介质是全局均匀的。该方法在文献数据上进行了说明，并确定和讨论了其有效性条件。
