A retrospective view on: "Testing scattering matrices: A compendium of recipes"

The elements of matrices relevant to polarized light transfer often obey certain equalities and inequalities that can be used for testing purposes. As an introduction to the reprint of our paper (Hovenier and van der Mee, 1996 [7]) we first present the case history and significance of this paper and then discuss some later developments.

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