We consider the propagation of polarized photons in optical fibers under the
action of randomly generated noise. In such situation, the change in time of
the photon polarization can be described by a quantum dynamical semigroup. We
show that the hierarchy among the decay constants of the polarization density
matrix elements as prescribed by complete positivity can be experimentally
probed using standard laboratory set-ups.Comment: 10 pages, LaTe
