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	干渉縞解析	ミュラー・ストークス計算
分野	光学	光学
系統	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
提唱年	1801	1852
提唱者	Thomas Young and Daniel Malus	George Gabriel Stokes and Hans Mueller
種類	Pattern analysis algorithm	Vector-matrix formalism
原典	Malacara, D. (Ed.). (2007). Optical Shop Testing (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons.	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.
別名	fringe pattern analysis, interferometry, phase extraction	Mueller matrix method, Stokes parameters, Mueller calculus
関連	3	3
概要	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.	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.