Polarized light

Author(s)

• Goldstein, Dennis H.

Bibliographic Information

Polarized light

Dennis Goldstein

（Optical engineering, v. 83）

Marcel Dekker, c2003

2nd ed., rev. and expanded

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Polarized Light, Second Edition explores polarized light, its production, and its use, facilitating self-study without prior knowledge of Maxwell's equations. This comprehensive second edition includes more than 2500 thoroughly updated figures and equations for easier understanding and application across various industries. It features new chapters on polarization by refraction and reflection, polarization elements, anisotropic materials, Stokes polarimetry, Mueller matrix polarimetry, the mathematics of the Mueller matrix. This edition also offers updated and expanded material on the derivation of the Fresnel equations with plots of the magnitude and phase of the reflection coefficients.

Table of Contents

• The classical optical field: introduction
• the wave equation in classical optics
• the polarization ellipse
• the Stokes polarization parameters. The Mueller matrices for polarizing components: methods for measuring the Stokes polarization parameters
• the measurement of the characteristics of polarizing elements
• Mueller matrices for reflection and transmission
• the mathematics for the Mueller matrix
• the mueller matrices for dielectrics plates
• the Jones matrix calculus
• the Poincare sphere
• theinterference laws of Fresnel and Arago. The classical and quantum theory of radiation by accelerating charges: introduction
• Maxwell's equations for the electromagnetic field
• the classical radiation field
• radiation emitted by accelerating charges
• theradiation of an accelerating charge in the electromagnetic field
• the classical Zeeman effect
• further applications of the classical radiation theory
• the Stokes parameters and mueller matrices for optical and Faraday rotation
• the Stokes parameters forquantum systems. Applications: introduction
• crystal optics
• optics of medals
• polarization of optical elements
• Stokes polarimetry
• Mueller matrix polarimetry
• ellipsometry. Appendices: Jones and Stokes Vectors
• Jones and Mueller Matrices
• relationshipsbetween the Jones and Mueller Matrix Elements
• vector representation of the optical field - application to optical activity.

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Details

• NCID: BA63190855
• ISBN:
  • 082474053X
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 653 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00339477