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Using Eq.
(11), it easy to compute the Mueller matrix in term
of the matrix elements of the Jones matrix:
It can also be useful to write the
Mueller
matrix in terms of the parameters a and 
of the
development of the Jones matrix on
the Pauli matrices (Eq. (7) and (8)) :
Jean Kaplan
Wed Sep 19 13:04:59 CEST 2001