mattderstine

I've just found OpticSim so I don't know much for the underlying infrastructure. One resource to different options for polarization raytracing is "Polarized Light and Optical Systems" by Chipman, Lam...

@BrianGun I had been working on my own raytracing code in Julia before I saw this project. It wasn't around when I started. I've just started looking at it and...

The issue with polarization ray tracing through birefringent materials is that rays do explode. The issue I am concerned about is not the pruning of rays to those of interest,...

I agree with @hrobotron that simple examples could be compared to results calculated directly. For what I had been doing, I was testing against the textbook examples and problems. This...

I'm going to go silent while I dig into this. My current understanding of the approach by Chipman is that the results from characterizing the optical system can then be...

Still working but some first impressions. Either method works fine for partially polarized light as long as there is no depolarizing elements in the system. It's just a matter of...

@hrobotron I had a more careful look at the beginning of the Zhang article and the double Gauss lens. Unlike the their analysis of the first part of the article,...

@BrianGun I have not really had time to look at OpticSim, I've been deep in the papers and book. I like your approach although I do suggest you read and...

Dear @hrobotron, The Jones approach is actually the more general approach for a raytrace. It supports both polarized and unpolarized light because it can be reduced to Mueller matrices in...

[jones matrix example.pdf](https://github.com/microsoft/OpticSim.jl/files/7166682/jones.matrix.example.pdf) Attached is a pdf of a Mathematica Notebook that shows how this is done for a nontrivial example. Something is wrong with the Jones to Mueller matrix...