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Do we know who Mr. Jones who invented this was? I ask because I suspect it was Isaac Newton's contemporary Sir William Jones and we might as well link to that if so. -- Paul Drye

I'm not sure. --Georg Muntingh

I very much doubt it. Try this:

Jones, R. C., ``New Calculus for the Treatment of Optical Systems I. Description and Discussion of the Calculus, Journal of the Optical Society of America, 31, 488-493 (1941)

The polarizer with azimuth 0:

P(0) = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 \\ \end{pmatrix}

The rotation by \varphi:

R(\varphi) = \begin{pmatrix} \cos\varphi & -\sin\varphi \\ \sin\varphi & \cos\varphi \\ \end{pmatrix}

The polarizer with azimuth \varphi:

P(\varphi) = R(\varphi) P(0) R(-\varphi) = \begin{pmatrix} \cos^2\varphi & \cos\varphi\sin\varphi \\ \sin\varphi\cos\varphi & \sin^2\varphi \\ \end{pmatrix}

--HarpyHumming 22:01, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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