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Physics Bulletin

The Theory of Polarization Phenomena

J. Byrne

Published Jun 1, 1975• 0 citations
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B A Robson London: Oxford University Press 1975 pp viii + 119 price £5.50 Some decades back Jones and Mueller developed their distinctive matrix calculi for treating polarization effects in classical optics, building on techniques reaching back to Stokes more than a century ago. In this little book the author describes the extension of these methods to the study of polarization phenomena, for spin ½ and spin 1 particles in particular, but with appropriate generalization to systems of arbitrary spin.

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10.1088/0031-9112/26/6/050

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