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Explicit representation of extended Jones matrix for oblique light propagation through a crystalline slab

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Nastishin Yu. A. and Nastyshyn S. Yu.

Abstract. We derive compact representation of an extended Jones matrix (EJM) suggested by Lien [Lien A, 1997. Liq. Cryst. 22: 171–175] for the case of oblique light incidence. Our representation of the EJM is handy for analytical calculations and has the form of a general Jones matrix, with nonzero imaginary parts of its off-diagonal elements. An analogy between these two matrices is discussed. For a crystal slab with the optic axis along the slab normal, our representation of the EJM reduces to a form that yields the Jones vector identical to that obtained by the other authors in the frame of paraxial approximation.

Keywords: Jones matrix formalism, extended Jones matrix, oblique light incidence, linear birefringence, Jones birefringence

PACS: 42.25.Bs, 42.25.Ja, 42.25.Lc, 78.20.Bh
UDC: 535.3, 535.5
Ukr. J. Phys. Opt. 12 191-201
doi: 10.3116/16091833/12/4/191/2011
Received:  03.11.2011

Анотація. Отримано компактне представлення узагальненої матриці Джонса (УМД), запропонованої Ліеном [Lien A, 1997. Liq. Cryst., 22, 2: 171 – 175] для похилого падіння світла. Наше представлення УМД є зручним для аналітичних обчислень та має форму загальної матриці Джонса з ненульовою уявною частиною недіагональних елементів. Обговорено аналогію між цими двома матрицями. Для кристалічної пластинки з оптичною віссю вздовж нормалі до пластинки наше представлення УМД зводиться до форми, яка приводить до вектора Джонса, отриманого іншими авторами в параксіальному наближенні. 
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