Polarized Emissivity and Kirchhoff’s Law

Authors

Andrew Resnick, Cleveland State UniversityFollow
Chris Persons
George Lindquist

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1999

Publication Title

APPLIED OPTICS

Abstract

An expression for the polarized emissivity of a material is obtained with the Stokes vector–Mueller matrixpolarization formalism. The result obtained is that thermally emitted radiance might have a circularpolarization component. In addition, the emissivity depends only on the reflectance matrix.

Repository Citation

Resnick, Andrew; Persons, Chris; and Lindquist, George, "Polarized Emissivity and Kirchhoff’s Law" (1999). Physics Faculty Publications. 327.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sciphysics_facpub/327

DOI

10.1364/AO.38.001384

Volume

38

Issue

8