Table of Contents:
- Jones Matrix Calculus
- Example: Half-Wave Plate
- Example: Quarter-Wave Plate
JONES MATRIX CALCULUS
In most materials used in waveplates and polarizers, the crystal medium is a uniaxial crystal.
With a light beam in a polarization state described by the Jones vector:
\begin{equation} V = \begin{pmatrix} V_x \\ V_y \end{pmatrix} \end{equation}
We can decompose this light into a linear combination of