Photonics, Vol. 11, Pages 76: Mueller-Polarimetry of Barley Leaves II: Mueller Matrix Decompositions

Photonics, Vol. 11, Pages 76: Mueller-Polarimetry of Barley Leaves II: Mueller Matrix Decompositions

Photonics doi: 10.3390/photonics11010076

Authors: Sergey Savenkov Yevgen Oberemok Ivan Kolomiets Ranjan Muttiah Roman Kurylenko

This paper highlights the application of decomposition methods in Mueller polarimetry for the discrimination of three groups of barley leaf samples from Hordeum vulgare: Chlorina mutant, Chlorina etiolated mutant and Cesaer varieties in the visible wavelength at λ = 632.8 nm. To obtain the anisotropic and depolarizing properties of the samples under study, the additive and multiplicative decompositions of experimental Mueller matrices were used. We show how a rich set of anisotropy and depolarization parameters obtained from decompositions can be used as effective observables for the discrimination between different varieties of the same plant species.