Polarized Light

✍ Scribed by Dennis H Goldstein

• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 786
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Polarized light is a pervasive influence in our world-and scientists and engineers in a variety of fields require the tools to understand, measure, and apply it to their advantage. Offering an in-depth examination of the subject and a description of its applications, Polarized Light, Third Edition serves as a comprehensive self-study tool complete with an extensive mathematical analysis of the Mueller matrix and coverage of Maxwell's equations. Links Historical Developments to Current Applications and Future InnovationsThis book starts with a general description of light and continues with a c. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front cover; Contents; Preface to the Third Edition; Polarized Light: A History; Part I. Introduction to Polarized Light; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Polarization in the Natural Environment; Chapter 3. Wave Equation in Classical Optics; Chapter 4. The Polarization Ellipse; Chapter 5. Stokes Polarization Parameters; Chapter 6. Mueller Matrices for Polarizing Components; Chapter 7. Fresnel Equations: Derivation and Mueller Matrix Formulation; Chapter 8. Mathematics of the Mueller Matrix; Chapter 9. Mueller Matrices for Dielectric Plates; Chapter 10. The Jones Matrix Formalism. Chapter 11. The Poincaré SphereChapter 12. Fresnel-Arago Interference Laws; Part II. Polarimetry; Chapter 13. Introduction; Chapter 14. Methods of Measuring Stokes Polarization Parameters; Chapter 15. Measurement of the Characteristics of Polarizing Elements; Chapter 16. Stokes Polarimetry; Chapter 17. Mueller Matrix Polarimetry; Chapter 18. Techniques in Imaging Polarimetry; Chapter 19. Channeled Polarimetry for Snapshot Measurements; Part III. Applications; Chapter 20. Introduction; Chapter 21. Crystal Optics; Chapter 22. Optics of Metals; Chapter 23. Polarization Optical Elements. Chapter 24. EllipsometryChapter 25. Form Birefringence and Meanderline Retarders; Part IV. Classical and Quantum Theory of Radiation by Accelerating Charges; Chapter 26. Introduction to Classical and Quantum Theory of Radiation by Accelerating Charges; Chapter 27. Maxwell's Equations for Electromagnetic Fields; Chapter 28. The Classical Radiation Field; Chapter 29. Radiation Emitted by Accelerating Charges; Chapter 30. Radiation of an Accelerating Charge in the Electromagnetic Field; Chapter 31. The Classical Zeeman Effect; Chapter 32. Further Applications of the Classical Radiation Theory. Chapter 33. The Stokes Parameters and Mueller Matrices for Optical Activity and Faraday RotationChapter 34. Stokes Parameters for Quantum Systems; Appendix A: Conventions in Polarized Light; Appendix B: Jones and Stokes Vectors; Appendix C: Jones and Mueller Matrices; Appendix D: Relationships between the Jones and Mueller Matrix Elements; Appendix E: Vector Representation of the Optical Field: Application to Optical Activity; Bibliography; Back cover.
Abstract: Polarized light is a pervasive influence in our world-and scientists and engineers in a variety of fields require the tools to understand, measure, and apply it to their advantage. Offering an in-depth examination of the subject and a description of its applications, Polarized Light, Third Edition serves as a comprehensive self-study tool complete with an extensive mathematical analysis of the Mueller matrix and coverage of Maxwell's equations. Links Historical Developments to Current Applications and Future InnovationsThis book starts with a general description of light and continues with a c

✦ Subjects

Физика;Оптика;