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In Sect. 1.1, the Poincaré sphere and the Poincaré plane were introduced as a means for representing the polarization state of the wave. From the algebraic point of view, the Poincaré sphere represents the mapping of the group of rotations of Jones vectors in the space of their stereographic projections. The radio wave polarization is represented on this sphere by a certain point P (Fig. 1.5), the position of which is uniquely determined by the angles \(2\alpha ,2\beta\) or \(2\gamma ,2\delta\), or Cartesian coordinates \(S_{1} ,S_{2} ,S_{3}\) (Stokes parameters).
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Kozlov A. I., Logvin A. I., Sarychev V. A., Shatrakov Y. G., Zavalishin O. I. (2020). Graphic Representations of the Signal Polarization State in Navigation Systems. In: Introduction to the Theory of Radiopolarimetric Navigation Systems. Springer Aerospace Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8395-3_5
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