Polarization properties of light scattered by a metallic cylinder

• G. López-Morales ^[1] ; I. Saucedo-Orozco ^[1] ; R. Espinosa-Luna ^[1] ; Q. Zhan ^[1] ; F. Villa-Villa ^[2]
  1. [1] University of Dayton

     University of Dayton

     City of Dayton, Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica

     Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica

     México

     
• Localización: Revista Mexicana de Física, ISSN-e 0035-001X, Vol. 63, Nº. 4, 2017, págs. 328-332
• Idioma: español
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  • The experimental determination of the angularly resolved Mueller matrix associated to light scattered by a metallic cylinder is reported. The angle-dependent values of depolarization index and Gil-Bernabeu theorem confirm there are not depolarization effects. To our knowledge, this is the cheapest and easiest way to generate uniform linear horizontal and vertical polarizations scattered angularly. A possible application associated to the use of plastic optical fibers acting like a polarization de-multiplexer is briefly discussed.