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pith:LQ3VLDFB

pith:2012:LQ3VLDFBLVSLCCLRHWXOEGFFZZ

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Measuring Mueller matrix of an arbitrary optical element with a fixed set of polarization optics

A. Aadhi, Ashok Kumar, Megh Shah, R. P. Singh, R. Simon, Salla Gangi Reddy, Shashi Prabhakar

arxiv:1211.2416 v4 · 2012-11-11 · physics.optics

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:50:52.007072Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c37558ca15d64b109713daee218a5ce5648ff3e193948822041c462932eb05d

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.2416 · arxiv_version: 1211.2416v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.2416 · pith_short_12: LQ3VLDFBLVSL · pith_short_16: LQ3VLDFBLVSLCCLR · pith_short_8: LQ3VLDFB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LQ3VLDFBLVSLCCLRHWXOEGFFZZ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 5c37558ca15d64b109713daee218a5ce5648ff3e193948822041c462932eb05d

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-11T12:57:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b588789bf45639031a40b4ef719eadd02f919debf159a7d8ee99305b712fe986"
  },
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