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    Geometric polarimetry—part I: spinors and wave states

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    Authors
    Bebbington, David
    Carrea, Laura
    Affiliation
    University of Essex
    Issue Date
    2014-07
    Subjects
    geometric polarimetry
    
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    Abstract
    A new formal approach for the representation of polarization states of coherent and partially coherent electromagnetic plane waves is presented. Its basis is a purely geometric construction for the normalized complex-analytic coherent wave as a generating line in the sphere of wave directions and whose Stokes vector is determined by the intersection with the conjugate generating line. The Poincaré sphere is now located in physical space, simply a coordination of the wave sphere, with its axis aligned with the wave vector. Algebraically, the generators representing coherent states are represented by spinors, and this is made consistent with the spinor-tensor representation of electromagnetic theory by means of an explicit reference spinor that we call the phase flag. As a faithful unified geometric representation, the new model provides improved formal tools for resolving many of the geometric difficulties and ambiguities that arise in the traditional formalism.
    Citation
    Bebbington, D., Darrea, L. (2014) 'Geometric Polarimetry—Part I: Spinors and Wave States' IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 52 (7):3908
    Publisher
    IEEE
    Journal
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/593545
    DOI
    10.1109/TGRS.2013.2278141
    Additional Links
    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=6588332
    http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0745
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0196-2892
    1558-0644
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1109/TGRS.2013.2278141
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