title: Experimental implementation and properties of Stokes nondiagonalizable depolarizing Mueller matrices.
abstract: We report on the experimental realization of a family of depolarizing Mueller matrices that are Stokes nondiagonalizable. We likewise demonstrate a unique characteristic property of Stokes nondiagonalizable matrices consisting in the preservation of the degree of polarization of a single totally polarized input and illustrate it on our experimental example.
authors.affiliation: LPICM, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Palaiseau, France. razvigor.ossikovski@polytechnique.edu
authors.forename: Razvigor
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ossikovski
authors.forename: Clément
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fallet
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pierangelo
authors.forename: Antonello
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Martino