Arteaga Oriol
J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2017 Mar 1;34(3):410-414. doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.34.000410.
The differential Stokes-Mueller matrix formalism expresses the local evolution of the Mueller matrix or the Stokes parameters for light propagating through a homogeneous optical medium. This paper presents a historical revision of the development of the differential Stokes-Mueller matrix formalism and highlights several important early contributions that have been overlooked. Particularly relevant is that this formalism was pioneered as early as 1929 by Paul Soleillet, almost 50 years earlier than it has been usually assumed. This historical revision demonstrates that several different authors independently formulated the differential Stokes-Mueller formalism during the 20th century and they found equivalent results studying the propagation problem from different approaches.
微分斯托克斯 - 米勒矩阵形式体系描述了光在均匀光学介质中传播时米勒矩阵或斯托克斯参数的局部演化。本文对微分斯托克斯 - 米勒矩阵形式体系的发展进行了历史回顾，并强调了一些被忽视的重要早期贡献。特别值得一提的是，这种形式体系早在1929年就由保罗·索莱伊率先提出，比通常认为的时间早了近50年。这一历史回顾表明，20世纪有几位不同的作者独立地提出了微分斯托克斯 - 米勒形式体系，并且他们从不同的方法研究传播问题时得到了等效的结果。
