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	Mueller-Stokes-kalkulus	Fouriers optikk
Fagfelt	Optikk	Optikk
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Opprinnelsesår	1852	1822
Opphavsperson	George Gabriel Stokes and Hans Mueller	Joseph Fourier and Ernst Abbe
Type	Vector-matrix formalism	Spectral decomposition method
Opprinnelig kilde	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.	Goodman, J. W. (1968). Introduction to Fourier Optics. McGraw-Hill.
Alias	Mueller matrix method, Stokes parameters, Mueller calculus	frequency-domain optics, wave optics, diffraction theory
Relaterte	3	3
Sammendrag	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.	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.