Experimental implementation and properties of Stokes nondiagonalizable depolarizing Mueller matrices

Opt Lett. 2009 Apr 1;34(7):974-6. doi: 10.1364/ol.34.000974.

Abstract

We report on the experimental realization of a family of depolarizing Mueller matrices that are Stokes nondiagonalizable. We likewise demonstrate a unique characteristic property of Stokes nondiagonalizable matrices consisting in the preservation of the degree of polarization of a single totally polarized input and illustrate it on our experimental example.