Majorization and measures of classical polarization in three dimensions.

There has been much discussion in the literature about rival measures of classical polarization in three dimensions. We gather and compare the various proposed measures of polarization, creating a geometric representation of the polarization state space in the process. We use majorization, previously used in quantum information, as a criterion to establish a partial ordering on the polarization state space. Using this criterion and other considerations, the most useful polarization measure in three dimensions is found to be one dependent on the Bloch vector decomposition of the polarization matrix.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Journal of The Optical Society of America A-optics Image Science and Vision

• Publication date

  2014-01-19

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Mathematics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1364/JOSAA.31.001620arXiv 1401.4733PMID 25121451
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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