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Stokes parameters

Known as: Stokes sphere, Stokes Vector, Stoke's parameters 
The Stokes parameters are a set of values that describe the polarization state of electromagnetic radiation. They were defined by George Gabriel… Expand
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Polarization (waves)

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2016
2016
Polarization Demultiplexing for Stokes Vector Direct Detection
The conventional intensity modulation with direct detection faces the capacity bottleneck beyond 100-Gb/s per wavelength, due to… Expand
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2015
Highly Cited
2015
Plasmonic metagratings for simultaneous determination of Stokes parameters
Measuring light's state of polarization is an inherently difficult problem, since the phase information between orthogonal… Expand
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2015
2015
First Zeeman Doppler Imaging of a Cool Star Using all Four Stokes Parameters
Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in active cool stars, but they are in general complex and weak. Current Zeeman Doppler imaging… Expand
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2013
Highly Cited
2013
Stokes Space-Based Optical Modulation Format Recognition for Digital Coherent Receivers
We present a technique for modulation format recognition for heterogeneous reconfigurable optical networks. The method is based… Expand
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2010
2010
psrchive and psrfits: Definition of the Stokes Parameters and Instrumental Basis Conventions
This paper defines the mathematical convention adopted to describe an electromagnetic wave and its polarisation state, as… Expand
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2006
Highly Cited
2006
Dual-polarized SAR and Stokes parameters
  • R. Keith Raney
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • 2006
    • Corpus ID: 21563759
For a given transmission polarization, the four-element Stokes vector captures all of the information inherent to the dual… Expand
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2004
Highly Cited
2004
Extremely fast (microsecond timescale) polarization changes in high speed long haul WDM transmission systems
Causes for microsecond timescale polarization changes in high speed WDM transmission systems were analyzed experimentally. Coiled… Expand
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2004
Highly Cited
2004
Magnetic Doppler imaging of 53 Camelopardalis in all four Stokes parameters
We present the first investigation of the structure of the stellar surface magnetic field using line profiles in all four Stokes… Expand
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1996
Highly Cited
1996
Understanding radio polarimetry. III. Interpreting the IAU/IEEE definitions of the Stokes parameters
In two companion papers (Paper I, Hamaker et al. 1996; Paper II, Sault et al. 1996), a new theory of radio-interferometric… Expand
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1996
Highly Cited
1996
Statistics of the Stokes parameters and of the complex coherence parameters in one-look and multilook speckle fields
Barakat [1987] derived the Stokes parameter statistics, applicable to one-look synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, of a… Expand
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