Methoden vergleichen

	Fourier-Optik	Müller-Stokes-Kalkül
Fachgebiet	Optik	Optik
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1822	1852
Urheber	Joseph Fourier and Ernst Abbe	George Gabriel Stokes and Hans Mueller
Typ	Spectral decomposition method	Vector-matrix formalism
Wegweisende Quelle	Goodman, J. W. (1968). Introduction to Fourier Optics. McGraw-Hill.	Stokes, G. G. (1852). On the composition and resolution of streams of polarized light from different sources. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 9, 399-416.
Aliasnamen	frequency-domain optics, wave optics, diffraction theory	Mueller matrix method, Stokes parameters, Mueller calculus
Verwandt	3	3
Zusammenfassung	Fourier optics is a mathematical framework that analyzes optical systems and phenomena using Fourier transforms and frequency-domain methods. Grounded in Joseph Fourier's 1822 work on heat diffusion and Ernst Abbe's microscopy theory, this approach decomposes optical fields into plane waves or spatial frequencies, revealing how optical systems manipulate and filter these components to produce images and transmit information.	Mueller-Stokes calculus is a mathematical framework for describing and analyzing the polarization properties of light, including partially polarized and unpolarized light. Grounded in George Gabriel Stokes' 1852 work on polarization parameters and extended by Hans Mueller in 1948, this formalism uses the four-component Stokes vector and the 4×4 Mueller matrix to track how optical systems transform polarization states.