Summary
How can thin coherent films and thick incoherent layers be handled together?
Uses partial-wave sums, Jones matrices and coherency vectors to obtain observable Mueller matrices.
Separates coherent field addition from incoherent intensity summation.
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Commentary
The thick-layer treatment described here is for weak anisotropy; lateral diffraction requires additional machinery.
This is a foundation for the thesis and the later periodic-structure treatment.
Interpretation and connections in this note, separate from the authors’ reported findings.