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Optics for Engineers
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Optics for Engineers

by Charles A. DiMarzio
August 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
564 pages
20h 45m
English
CRC Press
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178 OPTICS FOR ENGINEERS
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Figure 6.25 Poincaré sphere. The polarization state is completely described by a point on the
sphere. A surface point denotes complete polarization, and in general the radius is the degree
of polarization.
Coherency matrices can be used to dene partially polarized light and are consistent
with the Jones calculus.
The Stokes vector contains the same information as the coherency matrix.
Mueller matrices represent devices and operate on Stokes vectors, but are somewhat
unintuitive.
Many partial-polarization problems can best be solved by using the Jones matrices with
coherency matrices and interpreting ...
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ISBN: 9781439807255