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The problem of evolution of the Stokes vector of a wave upon its transmission through an arbitrary homogeneous anisotropic medium with a non-Hermitian dielectric tensor has been solved in the general form. Explicit expressions for the Stokes vectors of eigenwaves have been obtained.
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Original Russian Text © V.S. Merkulov, 2016, published in Optika i Spektroskopiya, 2016, Vol. 120, No. 6, pp. 1009–1012.
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Merkulov, V.S. Stokes eigenvectors and evolution of the polarization of light in an anisotropic medium. Opt. Spectrosc. 120, 944–947 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X1606014X
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