Beginning with the Mueller matrix for an arbitrary retarder provided in the previous problem, show that it

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Beginning with the Mueller matrix for an arbitrary retarder provided in the previous problem, show that it agrees with the matrix in Table 8.6 for a quarter-wave plate with a vertical fast axis.

Table 8.6

Linear optical element Jones matrix Mueller matrix 1 [1 o] Horizontal linear polarizer 1 -1 1 -1 Vertical linear polariz

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Optics

ISBN: 978-0133977226

5th edition

Authors: Eugene Hecht

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