Maximum-likelihood estimation prevents unphysical Mueller matrices

Details Maximum-likelihood estimation prevents unphysical Mueller matrices Maximum-likelihood estimation prevents unphysical Mueller matrices

2005-08-26

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508190v1

Physics

Optics

3 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1364/OL.31.000817

We show that the method of maximum-likelihood estimation, recently introduced in the context of quantum process tomography, can be applied to the determination of Mueller matrices characterizing the polarization properties of classical optical systems. Contrary to linear reconstruction algorithms, the proposed method yields physically acceptable Mueller matrices even in presence of uncontrolled experimental errors. We illustrate the method on the case of an unphysical measured Mueller matrix taken from the literature.

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