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Scattering And Absorption of Light in Planetary Regoliths
Published on: July 1, 2019
Improper statistics of the radiation from a randomly rotating source
Abstract:
In a previous study [J. Opt.19, 0905603 (2017)JOOPDB0150-536X10.1088/2040-8986/aa7cac], we revealed that the complete second-order statistics of narrowband polarized waves are characterized by 13 parameters, in contrast to the four parameters of the traditional Stokes vector description of the statistics of partially polarized light. In this study, we analyzed the second-order statistics of the field of a randomly rotating source of electromagnetic radiation and showed that it includes covariance of the right- and left-circular polarizations that are not captured by the Stokes vector formalism. We illustrate this finding using simple examples of rotating quadrupoles and dipole pairs.
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