Email this article Stokes eigenvectors and evolution of the polarization of light in an anisotropic medium
- Authors: Merkulov V.S.1
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Affiliations:
- Research and Applied Center for Material Science of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
- Issue: Vol 120, No 6 (2016)
- Pages: 944-947
- Section: Physical Optics
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/0030-400X/article/view/164846
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X1606014X
- ID: 164846
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Abstract
The problem of evolution of the Stokes vector of a wave upon its transmission through an arbitrary homogeneous anisotropic medium with a non-Hermitian dielectric tensor has been solved in the general form. Explicit expressions for the Stokes vectors of eigenwaves have been obtained.
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V. S. Merkulov
Research and Applied Center for Material Science of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
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Email: merkul@physics.by
Belarus, Minsk, 220072
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