Light Propagation through Uniaxial Materials Jones Method

3 Light Propagation through Uniaxial Materials (Jones Method) 

Neglecting reflection and absorption, the incident beam of light with a polarizahon state can be conveniently described by the Jones vector, which is expressed in terms of complex amplitudes as a column vector  

Here / is a complex vector in an abstract mathematical space related to the electric field as E, t) = ReU e ] = This representation con- 

Such normalized Jones matrices can be expressed for Ihe different polarization states as  

Linearly polarized light (, where (j) is the angle between x and the oscillation direchons  

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