On linear and circular depolarization LIDAR signatures in remote sensing of bioaerosols: experimental validation of the Mueller matrix for randomly oriented particles

Gilles A. Roy; Xiaoying Cao; Robert Bernier

doi:10.1117/1.3657505

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1 December 2011 On linear and circular depolarization LIDAR signatures in remote sensing of bioaerosols: experimental validation of the Mueller matrix for randomly oriented particles

Gilles A. Roy, Xiaoying Cao, Robert Bernier

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Optical Engineering, 50(12), 126001 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3657505

Abstract

Strong experimental data supporting the theoretical relationship between linear and circular depolarizations for randomly oriented particles are presented. The analysis of the data leads to the first experimental validation of the theoretical representation of the scattering Mueller matrix as having indeed only one free parameter for randomly oriented particles, which is the depolarization parameter, d. Consequently, there is no added information on the nature of the aerosols when the four Stokes parameters are measured for randomly oriented aerosols, as opposed to measuring only the linear polarization or only the circular polarization related parameters. This conclusion has a direct impact on the analysis of the level of complexity of the systems that are required to analyze aerosols based on their depolarization signatures.

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Gilles A. Roy, Xiaoying Cao, and Robert Bernier "On linear and circular depolarization LIDAR signatures in remote sensing of bioaerosols: experimental validation of the Mueller matrix for randomly oriented particles," Optical Engineering 50(12), 126001 (1 December 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3657505

Published: 1 December 2011

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