Polarized Light and Optical Systems
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Polarized Light and Optical Systems

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Polarized Light and Optical Systems

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Polarized Light and Optical Systems presents polarization optics for undergraduate and graduate students in a way which makes classroom teaching relevant to current issues in optical engineering. This curriculum has been developed and refined for a decade and a half at the University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences. Polarized Light and Optical Systems provides a reference for the optical engineer and optical designer in issues related to building polarimeters, designing displays, and polarization critical optical systems. The central theme of Polarized Light and Optical Systems is a unifying treatment of polarization elements as optical elements and optical elements as polarization elements.

Key Features

  • Comprehensive presentation of Jones calculus and Mueller calculus with tables and derivations of the Jones and Mueller matrices for polarization elements and polarization effects



  • Classroom-appropriate presentations of polarization of birefringent materials, thin films, stress birefringence, crystal polarizers, liquid crystals, and gratings



  • Discussion of the many forms of polarimeters, their trade-offs, data reduction methods, and polarization artifacts



  • Exposition of the polarization ray tracing calculus to integrate polarization with ray tracing



  • Explanation of the sources of polarization aberrations in optical systems and the functional forms of these polarization aberrations



  • Problem sets to build students' problem-solving capabilities.

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781351129077
Edition
1
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Physics
Index
Physics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Authors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Preface
  10. How This Book Came to Be
  11. Suggested Curricula
  12. Guided Tour of the Chapters
  13. Learning Features
  14. List of Abbreviations
  15. Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview
  16. Chapter 2 Polarized Light
  17. Chapter 3 Stokes Parameters and the Poincaré Sphere
  18. Chapter 4 Interference of Polarized Light
  19. Chapter 5 Jones Matrices and Polarization Properties
  20. Chapter 6 Mueller Matrices
  21. Chapter 7 Polarimetry
  22. Chapter 8 Fresnel Equations
  23. Chapter 9 Polarization Ray Tracing Calculus
  24. Chapter 10 Optical Ray Tracing
  25. Chapter 11 The Jones Pupil and Local Coordinate Systems
  26. Chapter 12 Fresnel Aberrations
  27. Chapter 13 Thin Films
  28. Chapter 14 Jones Matrix Data Reduction with Pauli Matrices
  29. Chapter 15 Paraxial Polarization Aberrations
  30. Chapter 16 Image Formation with Polarization Aberration
  31. Chapter 17 Parallel Transport and the Calculation of Retardance
  32. Chapter 18 A Skew Aberration
  33. Chapter 19 Birefringent Ray Trace
  34. Chapter 20 Beam Combination with Polarization Ray Tracing Matrices
  35. Chapter 21 Uniaxial Materials and Components
  36. Chapter 22 Crystal Polarizers
  37. Chapter 23 Diffractive Optical Elements
  38. Chapter 24 Liquid Crystal Cells
  39. Chapter 25 Stress-Induced Birefringence
  40. Chapter 26 Multi-Order Retarders and the Mystery of Discontinuities
  41. Chapter 27 Summary and Conclusions
  42. Index