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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Espinosa Luna, Rafael author Bernabeu Martínez, Eusebio author 2007-09-15 In this work, we have derived a depolarization metric, named Q(M) here, from the nine bilinear constraints between the 16 Mueller-Jones matrix elements, reported previously by several authors following different approaches. This metric Q(M) is sensitive to the internal nature of the depolarization Mueller matrix and does not depend on the incident Stokes vector. Q(M) provides explicit information about the inner 3 x 3 internal matrix. Four bounds are associated to Q(All) for a totally depolarizing, partially depolarizing, non-depolarizing diattenuating or partially depolarizing, and non-depolarizing non-diattenuating optical system, respectively. To our best knowledge, Q(All) is the unique depolarization metric that provides such information in one single number. 0030-4018 10.1016/j.optcom.2007.05.051 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51178 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2007.05.051 http://www.sciencedirect.com On the Q(M) depolarization metric