Computational Nanotechnology

This book explores polarized light, its production, and its use, facilitating self-study without prior knowledge of Maxwell's equations. This comprehensive edition includes more than 2500 figures and equations, along with chapters on polarization elements, anisotropic materials, Stokes polarimetry, Mueller matrix polarimetry, and the mathematics of the Mueller matrix. This third edition features two new chapters#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;one on polarized light in nature, and one on birefringence. In addition, it presents a completely revised review of the history of polarized light. This new edition also contains a new appendix on conventions used in polarized light.