This paper describes a model for the analysis of multilayered
chiral structures containing planar electric and magnetic
scattering elements of arbitrary shape, illuminated by an elliptically
polarized plane wave. The particular case of a single chiral layer is
analyzed and the scattering matrices for single and dual electric
and/or magnetic dipole distributions are derived in an original way.
As an application, the polarimetric response of a short electric or
magnetic dipole is directly obtained from their scattering matrix.
