Description of the instrument action on polarisation

Jean Kaplan
PCC, Collège de France, Paris

 
• Contents
• Description of the radiation field, the coherence matrix
• Description of the instrument
  • The Jones matrix
  • The Mueller matrix
• The various types of instruments
  • Instruments generating no circular polarisation
  • Instruments that induce circular polarisation
• Polarised beams as Jones or Mueller Matrices
  • Getting the Jones matrix from orthogonal antenna patterns
• The matrix elements of a general Mueller matrix
• The most general real Jones matrix
• References
• About this document ...