Ramachandran, G. and Usha Devi, A. R. and Kannadavardhana, N. S. S. (1995) Polarized light. Pramana-Journal of Physics, 45 (4). pp. 319-326.
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Following the recent work of Chandler et al on quasi probability distributions for spin-1/2 particles, we show that polarized light can be interpreted in terms of trivariate probability distributions in two different ways by choosing the variates to correspond to (i) the co-ordinates on the Poincare sphere, (ii) the components of the spin operator of the photon. In either case, it is shown that the Margenau-Hill procedure leads to probability mass functions while the Wigner-Weyl approach leads to probability density functions and the well-known Stokes parameters are also realised as appropriate averages with respect to these distribution functions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | D Physical Science > Physics |
| Divisions: | Department of > Physics |
| Depositing User: | Users 23 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 21 May 2021 04:56 |
| Last Modified: | 27 May 2022 06:26 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/16488 |
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