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A Resnick1, C Persons, G Lindquist
1Nichols Research Corporation, One Eleventh Avenue, Shalimar, Florida, USA. aresnick@cleveland.dynacs.com
Abstract:
An expression for the polarized emissivity of a material is obtained with the Stokes vector-Mueller matrix polarization formalism. The result obtained is that thermally emitted radiance might have a circular polarization component. In addition, the emissivity depends only on the reflectance matrix.
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