Jones calculus

The reader should be wary when consulting references on Jones calculus.

The Jones calculus is used to calculate polarization.

Note that Jones calculus is only applicable to light that is already fully polarized.

Analysis of a skew-square ring by the Jones calculus yields the polarization in a ring.

In a sequence of publications between 1941 and 1956 he demonstrated a mathematical model to describe the polarization of coherent light, the Jones calculus.

Detailed mathematics of polarization is done using Jones calculus and is characterised by the Stokes parameters.

The standard matrix methods for the beam characteristics - curvature and width - are given, as well as the Jones calculus for polarization.

The FSA is most commonly used in optics, specifically when working with Jones Calculus because the electromagnetic wave is typically followed through a series of optical components that represent separate scattering events.

Many problems involving coherent light (such as from a laser) must be treated with Jones calculus, because it works with amplitude rather than intensity of light, and retains information about the phase of the waves.

Light which is unpolarized or partially polarized must be treated using Mueller calculus, while fully polarized light can be treated with either Mueller calculus or the simpler Jones calculus.