Fundamentals of Polarized Light: A Statistical Optics Approach Book

	Preface
Pt. 1	Historical Survey of Understanding of Polarized Light	1
1.1	First Period: Early Ideas and Observations - from Bartholinus to Stokes	3
1.2	Second Period: The Electromagnetic Nature of Light	9
1.3	Third Period: The Coherence and Quantum Properties of Light	15
Pt. 2	Preliminaries to a Classic Radiation Field Theory	35
2.1	The Basic Differential Equations and Boundary Conditions	37
2.2	Invariance Transformations	51
2.3	Monochromatic Plane Wave	57
Pt. 3	Polarization and the Radiation Field	67
3.1	Elementary Concepts and Definitions	69
3.2	Geometric Representations of Partially Polarized Light	123
3.3	Statistics of the Radiation Field	138
3.4	Entropy of the Radiation Field	165
Pt. 4	Interaction of Radiation with Linear Media	179
4.1	Jones and Mueller Polarization Transfer Matrix Methods	181
4.2	Polarization Effects at Dielectric Interfaces	244
4.3	Polarized Light and Symmetry Transformations	252
4.4	Random Media	268
Pt. 5	Applications to Selected Topics	303
5.1	Electromagnetic Propagation in Linear Anisotropic Media	305
5.2	Optical Polarizing Components	330
5.3	Measurement of Stokes Parameters	339
5.4	Measurement of Jones and Mueller Polarization Matrices	346
App. A	Analogy of Second-Order Coherence Properties of Blackbody Radiation with Theory of Homogeneous and Isotropic Turbulence of an Incompressible Fluid	363
App. B	Derivation of Eq. (3.4.5) Using the Spectral Decomposition Theorem	366
App. C	Degree of Polarization of an Incoherent Mixture of Partially Polarized Light Beams	368
App. D	Set of Generalized Stokes Parameters	371
App. E	Short Historical Account of the Concept of Entropy of Radiation Fields	372
App. F	Singular Value Decomposition	374
App. G	Derivation of Bounds for Degree of Polarization	376
App. H	Application of Maximum Entropy Principle in Polarization Optics	378
App. I	Set of Coefficients D[superscript l][subscript k]	380
App. J	Evaluation of Correlation Function in Eq. (4.4.34)	382
App. K	Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy	387
App. L	Polarization of Photons	392
	Author Index	397
	Subject Index	401