The Mueller matrix cone and its application to filtering

arXiv1910.12653MaRDI QIDQ6328012FDOQ6328012

Authors: Tim Zander, Jürgen Beyerer 

Publication date: 28 October 2019

Abstract: We show that there is an isometry between the real ambient space of all Mueller matrices and the space of all Hermitian matrices which maps the Mueller matrices onto the positive semidefinite matrices. We use this to establish an optimality result for the filtering of Mueller matrices, which roughly says that it is always enough to filter the eigenvalues of the corresponding "coherency matrix". Then we further explain how the knowledge of the cone of Hermitian positive semidefinite matrices can be transferred to the cone of Mueller matrices with a special emphasis towards optimisation. In particular, we suggest that means of Mueller matrices should be computed within the corresponding Riemannian geometry.

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