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	ミュラー・ストークス計算	干渉縞解析
分野	光学	光学
系統	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
提唱年	1852	1801
提唱者	George Gabriel Stokes and Hans Mueller	Thomas Young and Daniel Malus
種類	Vector-matrix formalism	Pattern analysis algorithm
原典	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.
別名	Mueller matrix method, Stokes parameters, Mueller calculus	fringe pattern analysis, interferometry, phase extraction
関連	3	3
概要	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.