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	Analisi delle frange interferometriche	Ottica di Fourier	Calcolo di Mueller-Stokes
Campo	Ottica	Ottica	Ottica
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1801	1822	1852
Ideatore	Thomas Young and Daniel Malus	Joseph Fourier and Ernst Abbe	George Gabriel Stokes and Hans Mueller
Tipo	Pattern analysis algorithm	Spectral decomposition method	Vector-matrix formalism
Fonte seminale	Malacara, D. (Ed.). (2007). Optical Shop Testing (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons.	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.
Alias	fringe pattern analysis, interferometry, phase extraction	frequency-domain optics, wave optics, diffraction theory	Mueller matrix method, Stokes parameters, Mueller calculus
Correlati	3	3	3
Sintesi	Interferogram fringe analysis is a computational methodology for extracting quantitative information from interference fringe patterns recorded in optical systems. Rooted in Thomas Young's 1801 double-slit experiment and formalized in 20th-century metrology, this approach interprets the spatial patterns of constructive and destructive interference to measure surface topography, optical aberrations, refractive-index distributions, and other optical properties with high precision.	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.