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	ミュラー・ストークス計算	ジョーンズ計算
分野	光学	光学
系統	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
提唱年	1852	1941
提唱者	George Gabriel Stokes and Hans Mueller	Robert Clark Jones
種類	Vector-matrix formalism	Vector-matrix formalism
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.	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.
別名	Mueller matrix method, Stokes parameters, Mueller calculus	Jones vector method, Jones matrix, polarization calculus
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.	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.