TY - JOUR
T1 - Polarization ray tracing
AU - Chipman, Russell A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author wishes to acknowledge the support of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with contract 955687 and the NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center with contract NAG8-053. Some of the calculations and programming were performed by Mohamad Habli. Dr. James Breckinridge of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory initially suggested this area for research.
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PY - 1987/6/10
Y1 - 1987/6/10
N2 - A method of polarization ray tracing for calculating the instrumental polarization function of an optical system using the Jones calculus is presented. Polarization ray tracing supplements the equations of ray tracing to include amplitude, phase, polarization and retardance effects of thin films, polarization elements and polarizing materials. Results of a polarization ray trace analysis of a Cassegrain telescope are presented.
AB - A method of polarization ray tracing for calculating the instrumental polarization function of an optical system using the Jones calculus is presented. Polarization ray tracing supplements the equations of ray tracing to include amplitude, phase, polarization and retardance effects of thin films, polarization elements and polarizing materials. Results of a polarization ray trace analysis of a Cassegrain telescope are presented.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.940204
DO - 10.1117/12.940204
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0023578784
VL - 766
SP - 61
EP - 68
JO - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
JF - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
SN - 0277-786X
T2 - Recent Trends in Optical Systems Design and Computer Lens Design Workshop 1987
Y2 - 12 January 1987 through 16 January 1987
ER -