title: Analytic inversion of the Mueller-Jones polarization matrices for homogeneous media.
abstract: In this Letter we present the equations to calculate the six independent polarization effects of an arbitrary normalized Mueller-Jones matrix corresponding to homogenous media. A comparison between this method and other inversion procedures is discussed, and the application of the analytic inversion to experimental Mueller matrices is illustrated.
authors.affiliation: FEMAN Group, Departament de Física Aplicada i Optica, IN2UB, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain. oarteaga@ub.edu
authors.forename: Oriol
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Arteaga
authors.forename: Adolf
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Canillas