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.