Rotated Linear Polarizer and Jones Matrix

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Really cool things start happening when you rotate a linear polarizer. In this video, I show how to decompose x- and y- components of the linear polarizers onto the axis of the polarizer, and how this corresponds to a rotation matrix. I then describe the overall Jones matrix for a rotated linear polarizer, and a rotated optical element in general.

This is part of my graduate series on optoelectronics / photonics, and is based primarily on Coldren's book on Lasers as well as graduate-level coursework I have taken in the EECS department at UC Berkeley.

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