05492 IUPAC Gold Book - scattering matrix 10.1351/goldbook.S05492 S05492 current 1 The Stokes parameters of scattered light are given by the matrix equation \[(s_{0},s_{1},s_{2},s_{3}) = F\ (s_{0}^{0},s_{1}^{0},s_{2}^{0},s_{3}^{0})\] where the 4, 4 scattering matrix \(F\) is comprised of 16 scattering matrix elements. These matrix elements, which may originate in theory or experiment, provide a complete description of the scattered radiation in terms of the incident radiation. Stokes parameters https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/S06030 radiation https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/R05048 scattering https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/S05487 PAC, 1983, 55, 931. 'Definitions, terminology and symbols in colloid and surface chemistry. Part 1.14: Light scattering (Provisional)' on page 934 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac198355060931) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/S05492/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/S05492/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/S05492/plain Citation: 'scattering matrix' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.S05492 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-06-14T10:28:40+00:00