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Polarized emissivity and kirchhoff’s law

  • Nichols Research Corporation
  • Dynacs Engineering Company, Inc.

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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. © 1999 Optical Society of America.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1384-1387
Number of pages4
JournalApplied Optics
Volume38
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 1999

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