py-pol 0.1.3

Jones and Mueller polarization - Optics

Python polarization

Jones and Mueller polarization - Optics

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://py-pol.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Features

• Jones matrices and vectors, Stokes vectors and Mueller matrices.

• Each one has its own class, with multiple methods for generation, operation and parameters extraction.

References

• 4. Goldstein “Polarized light” 2nd edition, Marcel Dekker (1993) ISBN: 0-8247-4053-X.

• 10. 10. Gil, R. Ossikovsky “Polarized light and the Mueller Matrix approach”, CRC Press (2016) ISBN 978-1-4822-5156-2 and 978-1-4822-5155-5.

• 18. Martinez-Herrero, P.M. Mejias, G.Piquero “Characterization of partially polarized light fields” Springer series in Optical sciences (2009) ISBN 978-3-642-01326-3.

• 3. Brosseau “Fundamentals of Polarized Light” Wiley (1998).

• J.M. Bennet “Handbook of Optics 1” Cap 5 ‘Polarization’.

• R.A. Chipman “Handbook of Optics 2” Cap 2 ‘Polarimetry’.

• S.Y. Lu and R.A. Chipman, “Homogeneous and inhomogeneous Jones matrices”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A/Vol. 11, No. 2 pp. 766 (1994).

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

History

0.1.1 (2018-12-22)

• First release on PyPI in pre-alpha state.

0.1.3 (2019-01-22)

• Jones_vector, Jones_matrix, Stokes works.

• Mueller is in progress.

• Functions = 9/10, Documentation = 9/10 Tutorial = 7/10. Examples = 6/10.

• Drawing = 0/10.