Page i, Front Matter

Table of Contents

• Front Matter

• The Foundations of Polarized Light
• The Ray Theory of Light

• The Polarization of Light

• Malus's Law

• Brewster's Law

• The Wave Theory of Light
• Fresnel's Wave Theory

• The Polarization Ellipse

• Degenerate Polarization States

• The Parameters of the Polarization Ellipse

• The Poincaré Sphere

• Degenerate States on the Poincaré Sphere

• The Observables of Polarized Light
• The Stokes Polarization Parameters

• Stokes Parameter Relations

• Classical Measurement of the Stokes Parameters

• The Mueller Matrices for Polarizing Components

• Polarizers

• Wave Plates

• Rotators

• Mueller Matrices for Rotated Components

• Mueller Matrix Applications: Malus's Law

• Mueller Matrix Applications — The Optical Shutter

• Mueller Matrix Applications — Stokes Parameters

• The Observable Polarization Sphere
• The Observable Polarization Sphere

• Plotting the Quarter-Wave Plate on the OPS

• The Rotating Quarter-Wave Plate

• The Babinet-Soleil Compensator

• Linear and Circular Polarizers

• The Generation of Elliptically Polarized Light

• Measurement Methods of the Stokes Parameters

• The Rotating Quarter-Wave Plate Measurement

• Birefringent Crystals and Wave Plates

• Multiple and Zero-Order Wave Plates

• Reflection and Transmission
• Mueller Matrices for Reflection and Transmission

• Reflection and Transmission Stokes Parameters

• Reflection and Transmission Mueller Matrices

• Total Internal Reflection (TIR)

• The Fresnel Rhomb

• Single and Multiple Dielectric Plates

• Pile of Polarizing Dielectric Plates

• Fresnel's Reflection and Transmission Coefficients

• Other Polarization Matrix Calculi
• The Jones Matrix Calculus

• Wolf's Coherency Matrix Calculus

• Optical Activity and Optical Rotation
• Optical Activity and Optical Rotation

• Faraday Rotation

• Optical Isolators

• Depolarizers
• Wave Plate Depolarizers

• The Lyot Crystal Depolarizer

• Polarizing Materials
• Polarizers

• Polarizing Prisms

• Characterizing Polarizers

• Wave Plate Materials

• Superposition and Decomposition of Polarized Beams
• Incoherent Superposition and Decomposition

• Incoherent Decomposition—Ellipses

• Coherent Superposition and Decomposition

• The Electro-Optical Effect
• The Electro-Optical Effect—Modulators

• The Pockels Cell

• Refractive Index Measurements
• Refractive Index Measurement

• The Radiation Field
• Maxwell's Equations

• The Radiation Equation and the Stokes Parameters

• The Linear Oscillating Bound Charge

• The Randomly Oscillating Bound Charge

• A Charge Moving in a Circle

• A Charge Moving in a Magnetic Field

• The Classical Zeeman Effect

• Optical Scattering

• The Optics of Metals and Semiconductors
• The Optics of Metals and Semiconductors

• Refractive Index and Absorption Coefficient

• Incidence Angle Reflectivity

• Complex Reflection Coefficients

• The Principal Angle of Incidence Measurement

• Appendix
• Equation Summary

• Back Matter