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Stokes parameters [′stōks pə‚ram·əd·ərz]

(optics)

Four quantities that fully describe the polarization of a beam of light.

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Another representation of the state of polarization, and one which leads quite naturally to the Poincare sphere is by parameters which all have the same physical dimensions, called Stokes parameters [8]:

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