" Ellipsometry" is a relatively new word in the vocabulary of physics—it was coined some 30
years ago and has come into common use only rather recently. It refers to the modern …

Designed as a text for a one-semester, nonmathematical optics course at the undergraduate
level, this well-illustrated text is addressed to art majors but is also suitable for students of …

In this classic exposition, Ernst Mach presents a detailed account of the experimental and
theoretical evolution of our understanding of light phenomena and apparatus. Beginning …

We give a general definition of unpolarized light that rests on invariance properties rather
than specific values of second-order field correlations or, equivalently, the Stokes …

But as such an idea is sufficiently simple and obvious, it is possible that some experiments of
this kind may have been published, although I am not acquainted with them. I have lately …

в ней обсуждаются сущность явления поляризации и способы ее математического
описания, рассматриваются методы экспериментального получения и исследования …