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	Calcolo di Mueller-Stokes	Analisi delle frange interferometriche	Calcolo di Jones
Campo	Ottica	Ottica	Ottica
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1852	1801	1941
Ideatore	George Gabriel Stokes and Hans Mueller	Thomas Young and Daniel Malus	Robert Clark Jones
Tipo	Vector-matrix formalism	Pattern analysis algorithm	Vector-matrix formalism
Fonte seminale	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.	Malacara, D. (Ed.). (2007). Optical Shop Testing (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons.	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.
Alias	Mueller matrix method, Stokes parameters, Mueller calculus	fringe pattern analysis, interferometry, phase extraction	Jones vector method, Jones matrix, polarization calculus
Correlati	3	3	3
Sintesi	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.	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.	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.