Tutorials

These documents state all the particularities of the four main classes of py_pol: Jones_vector, Jones_matrix, Stokes and Mueller. There is also a fifth tutorial centered in the representation of polarization states (Jones_vector and Stokes).

• 1. Jones_vector class
  • 1.1. Creating an instance
  • 1.2. Jones_vector class fields
  • 1.3. Generating polarization states
    • 1.3.1. Features of creation methods
  • 1.4. Basic operations
    • 1.4.1. Addition of two Jones vectors
    • 1.4.2. Multiply by a constant
    • 1.4.3. Equality
    • 1.4.4. Operations and multidimensionality
  • 1.5. Jones vector manipulation
    • 1.5.1. Picking and setting
    • 1.5.2. Iterating
  • 1.6. Parameters of Jones_vector
  • 1.7. Checks of Jones_vector
• 2. Jones_matrix class
  • 2.1. Creating an instance
  • 2.2. Jones_matrix class fields
  • 2.3. Generating of optical elements
    • 2.3.1. Features of creation methods
  • 2.4. Basic operations
    • 2.4.1. Multiplication of a Jones matrix by a Jones vector
    • 2.4.2. Multiplication of 2 Jones matrices
    • 2.4.3. Multiplication by a constant
    • 2.4.4. Addition of two Jones matrices
    • 2.4.5. Equality
    • 2.4.6. Operations and multidimensionality
  • 2.5. Jones matrix manipulation
    • 2.5.1. Picking and setting
    • 2.5.2. Iterating
  • 2.6. Parameters of Jones_matrix
  • 2.7. Checks of Jones_matrix
  • 2.8. Analysis of Jones_matrix
• 3. Stokes class
  • 3.1. Creating an instance
  • 3.2. Generating polarization states
    • 3.2.1. Features of creation methods
  • 3.3. Basic operations
    • 3.3.1. Addition of two Stokes vectors
    • 3.3.2. Multiply by a constant
    • 3.3.3. Equality
    • 3.3.4. Operations and multidimensionality
  • 3.4. Stokes vectors manipulation
    • 3.4.1. Picking and setting
    • 3.4.2. Iterating
  • 3.5. Parameters of Stokes vector
  • 3.6. Checks of Stokes vectors
  • 3.7. Analysis of Stokes vectors
• 4. Mueller class
  • 4.1. Creating an instance
  • 4.2. Mueller class fields
  • 4.3. Generating polarization devices
    • 4.3.1. Features of creation methods
  • 4.4. Basic operations
    • 4.4.1. Addition of two Mueller matrices
    • 4.4.2. Multiply by a constant
    • 4.4.3. Multiplication of a Stokes vector by a Mueller matrix
    • 4.4.4. Multiplication of Mueller matrices
    • 4.4.5. Equality
    • 4.4.6. Operations and multidimensionality
  • 4.5. Mueller matrix manipulation
    • 4.5.1. Picking and setting
    • 4.5.2. Iterating
  • 4.6. Parameters of Mueller matrices
  • 4.7. Checks on Mueller Matrices
  • 4.8. Analysis of Mueller matrices
• 5. Draw
  • 5.1. Polarization ellipse
    • 5.1.1. Pure states
    • 5.1.2. Plot multiple ellipses in a single plot
    • 5.1.3. Plot several ellipses in multiple plots
    • 5.1.4. Plot partially polarized states
    • 5.1.5. Save the figure as an image file
  • 5.2. Poincaré sphere
    • 5.2.1. Plotting multiple states
    • 5.2.2. Plotting parameters