Resumen de Polarization properties of light scattered by a metallic cylinder
G. López-Morales, I. Saucedo Orozco, R. Espinosa Luna, Q. Zhan, F. Villa-Villa
The experimental determination of the angularly resolved Mueller matrix associated to light scattered by a metallic cylinder is reported. The angle-dependent values of depolarization index and Gil-Bernabeu theorem confirm there are not depolarization effects. To our knowledge, this is the cheapest and easiest way to generate uniform linear horizontal and vertical polarizations scattered angularly. A possible application associated to the use of plastic optical fibers acting like a polarization de-multiplexer is briefly discussed.
