Closed Jashcraf closed 1 year ago
A few grammar things,
This tutorial will guide you through the basics of Jones calculus, a matrix calculus used for the propagation of polarization through an optical system. Any polarization state can be represented by a simple 2-vector called a Jones vector
This can probably be shortened to
his tutorial will guide you through the basics of Jones calculus. Any polarization state can be represented by a simple 2-vector called a Jones vector
or (polarized)
"or" can be removed
like this
Can remove "this" both times
We can also invoke the complex dimension of polarization to describe a phase delay between the horizontal and linear polarization states. A quarter-wave phase delay is or . If we add this phase delay to the component, the resultant Jones vector looks like this:
I think the "complex" here is redundant, since the opening equation uses "E" (E-field) notation. Perhaps it is more clear to write something of the sense,
Wave plates and other components that impart polarization-dependent phase shifts are represented by modifying the complex phase of each element of
$\mathbf{v}$
. For example, a quarter wave plate looks like:
In this block,
from prysm.x.polarization import linear_polarizer
h_polarizer = linear_polarizer()
print(h_polarizer)
I think it would be a nice touch to use the kwarg in linear polarizer, so that the user can see this could make other orientations as well.
Please also add the new tutorial to the index file for tutorials,
docs/source/tutorials/index.rst
I made all of the recommended changes except on the note of the "complex" being redundant. The way the notebook is currently written Jones matrices aren't introduced yet, so it feels out of place to introduce a QWP before talking more generally about Jones matrices.
I do bring up that the elements of the Jones vector are complex amplitudes earlier, so I just deleted the mention of complex and changed this block of text to:
We can also describe a polarization state with a phase delay between the horizontal and linear polarization states.
corrected the polarizer at 22.5 deg to be 0 degrees so it's truly a horizontal polarizer. Also reset the notebook so that the cells aren't executed yet.
Merged :)
This doesn't contain the release notes, but does have our first demo using x.pol, as well as some added support for jones vectors using the same construction as the Jones matrices.