Interaction of light with polarization devices: a vectorial Pauli algebraic approach

Tiberiu Tudor

doi:10.1117/12.796444

22 April 2008 Interaction of light with polarization devices: a vectorial Pauli algebraic approach

Tiberiu Tudor

Proceedings Volume 7008, Eighth International Conference on Correlation Optics; 700804 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.796444
Event: Eighth International Conference on Correlation Optics, 2007, Chernivsti, Ukraine

Abstract

A theoretical approach to the interaction between the polarized light and the polarization devices based on the vectorial and pure operatorial form of the Pauli algebra is presented. Unlike the standard (Jones and Mueller) approaches, this formalism is coordinate-free, i.e. it does not appeal to any matrix representation of the involved operators. This approach addresses to parameters that reveal the internal symmetries of both the polarization devices and the polarization state space. Therefore the final equations giving the three relevant quantities that characterize the interaction - the gain, the Poincare vector of the outgoing light and its degree of polarization - are symmetric, compact and physically expressive.

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Tiberiu Tudor "Interaction of light with polarization devices: a vectorial Pauli algebraic approach", Proc. SPIE 7008, Eighth International Conference on Correlation Optics, 700804 (22 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.796444

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