השוואת שיטות

	חשבון ג'ונס	חשבון מולר-סטוקס
תחום	אופטיקה	אופטיקה
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1941	1852
הוגה השיטה	Robert Clark Jones	George Gabriel Stokes and Hans Mueller
סוג	Vector-matrix formalism	Vector-matrix formalism
מקור מכונן	Jones, R. C. (1941). A new calculus for the treatment of optical systems: I. Description and discussion of the calculus. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 31(7), 488-493.	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.
כינויים	Jones vector method, Jones matrix, polarization calculus	Mueller matrix method, Stokes parameters, Mueller calculus
קשורות	3	3
תקציר	Jones calculus is a mathematical formalism for analyzing the propagation and manipulation of polarized light using vectors and matrices. Developed by Robert Clark Jones in 1941, it represents the electric field of a coherent optical beam as a two-component complex vector (Jones vector) and optical elements as matrices (Jones matrices), enabling elegant tracking of polarization through optical systems.	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.