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	Calcul de Mueller-Stokes	Optique de Fourier
Domaine	Optique	Optique
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1852	1822
Auteur d'origine	George Gabriel Stokes and Hans Mueller	Joseph Fourier and Ernst Abbe
Type	Vector-matrix formalism	Spectral decomposition method
Source fondatrice	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.	Goodman, J. W. (1968). Introduction to Fourier Optics. McGraw-Hill.
Alias	Mueller matrix method, Stokes parameters, Mueller calculus	frequency-domain optics, wave optics, diffraction theory
Apparentées	3	3
Résumé	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.	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.