Polarized Light and Optical Systems

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Synopsis

Polarized Light and Optical Systems presents polarization optics for undergraduate and graduate students in a way which makes classroom teaching relevant to current issues in optical engineering. This curriculum has been developed and refined for a decade and a half at the University of Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences. Polarized Light and Optical Systems provides a reference for the optical engineer and optical designer in issues related to building polarimeters, designing displays, and polarization critical optical systems. The central theme of Polarized Light and Optical Systems is a unifying treatment of polarization elements as optical elements and optical elements as polarization elements.
Key Features

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.

Book details

Series:
Optical Sciences and Applications of Light
Author:
Russell A. Chipman, Wai Sze Lam, Garam Young
ISBN:
9781498700573
Related ISBNs:
9781351129077, 9781351129121, 9781351129060, 9781498700573, 9781498700566, 9781498700566, 9781498700566, 9781351129121
Publisher:
CRC Press
Pages:
982
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-02-21
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2019
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Technology