List of Jones and Mueller Matrices

The majority of Jones matrices for transmission polarizing elements have been presented in this chapter. As mentioned earlier, it is generally more convenient to use Mueller matrices and not Jones matrices when analyzing cascades of optical elements making up a particular experiment. For the purpose of such calculations, a list of Jones and Mueller matrices for most of the elements encountered in practice can be found compiled in Appendix I. 

The intensity of the light generated in this experiment is easily calculated using equations (2.5) and (2.6) combined with the appropriate Jones and Mueller matrices selected from Appendix I. The Jones and Stokes vectors, Aj and, exiting this cascade are 

Convenient choices for the incident light electric vectors are AQ = (Eq/JI) (1,01 and SQ = (IQ, 0,0,0), which represent circularly polarized 

Here the notation introduced in Appendix I of se = sin0, c0 = cos0, Ce = cosh0, and Sq = sinh0 is used. Carrying out the multiplications in equation (2.60) one obtains 

7 Transmission through Homogeneous Materials at Oblique Incidence 

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The following list of Jones and Mueller matrices has been compiled for most optical elements encountered in optical instruments where polarization effects must be taken into account. In writing these matrices, the following notation has been used a - 2nn d/X a" = 2nn"d/ k, where n = n -iti" is the isotropic refractive index, d is the sample thickness ... 

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