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    The transfer-matrix method is a method used in optics and acoustics to analyze the propagation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves through a stratified...
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  • Transfer-matrix method (optics), a method to analyze the propagation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves through a stratified medium. Ray transfer matrix...
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  • compression in femtosecond lasers. Transfer-matrix method (optics) Linear canonical transformation Extension of matrix methods to tracing (non-paraxial) meridional...
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  • dictionary. TMM may refer to: Transfer-matrix method, a statistical mechanics method Transfer-matrix method (optics), a method to describe wave propagation...
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  • various branches of engineering, a transfer function matrix, or just transfer matrix is a generalisation of the transfer functions of single-input single-output...
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  • The Transition Matrix Method (T-matrix method, TMM) is a computational technique of light scattering by nonspherical particles originally formulated by...
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    require methods such as physical optics or wave theory. Collimated beam Optical path Optical path length Paraxial approximation Pencil beam Ray transfer matrix...
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  • Thin-film interference Thin-film optics Thin-film solar cell Thin-film bulk acoustic resonator Transfer-matrix method (optics) "IEC 60050 - International Electrotechnical...
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  • Fourier optics is the study of classical optics using Fourier transforms (FTs), in which the waveform being considered is regarded as made up of a combination...
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    vibrations, and oscillations in electrical circuits. Geometrical optics provides further matrix applications. In this approximative theory, the wave nature...
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    Thin-film interference (category Thin-film optics)
    interference spectroscopy Thin-film optics Transfer-matrix method (optics) Stavenga, D. G. (2014). "Thin Film and Multilayer Optics Cause Structural Colors of...
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  • counterparts exhibit chaotic behaviour are described by random matrix theory. In quantum optics, transformations described by random unitary matrices are crucial...
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    liquid matrix method" that combined 30 nm cobalt particles in glycerol with a 337 nm nitrogen laser for ionization. Using this laser and matrix combination...
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  • electromagnetics, the scattering-matrix method (SMM) is a numerical method used to solve Maxwell's equations, related to the transfer-matrix method. SMM can, for example...
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    Two-port network (category Transfer functions)
    parameters Transfer-matrix method (optics) for reflection/transmission calculation of light waves in transparent layers Ray transfer matrix for calculation...
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  • finite element methods); matrix products (when using transfer matrix methods); calculating numerical integrals (when using the method of moments); using...
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    S2CID 25120679. A. Deinega; S. Belousov; I. Valuev (2009). "Hybrid transfer-matrix FDTD method for layered periodic structures". Opt. Lett. 34 (6): 860–2. Bibcode:2009OptL...
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    paraxial approximation is used in Gaussian optics and first-order ray tracing. Ray transfer matrix analysis is one method that uses the approximation. In some...
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    Discrete dipole approximation (category Scattering, absorption and radiative transfer (optics))
    fields such as nanophotonics, radar scattering, aerosol physics, biomedical optics, and astrophysics. The basic idea of the DDA was introduced in 1964 by DeVoe...
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    Domain Method in Electromagnetics, Artech House, Bibcode:1989ah...bookQ....S, ISBN 0-89006-349-4 Scott, Craig (1997), Introduction to Optics and Optical...
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    where the 2×2 element τ {\displaystyle \tau } is the beam-splitter transfer matrix and r and t are the reflectance and transmittance along a particular...
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    Wigner quasiprobability distribution (category Quantum optics)
    density matrix, so the realization of that operator in phase space. It has applications in statistical mechanics, quantum chemistry, quantum optics, classical...
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    3D optical data storage (category Nonlinear optics)
    necessarily involves nonlinear data reading and writing methods, in particular nonlinear optics. 3D optical data storage is related to (and competes with)...
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  • Light scattering by particles (category Scattering, absorption and radiative transfer (optics))
    evolved. The technique is also known as null field method and extended boundary technique method (EBCM). Matrix elements are obtained by matching boundary conditions...
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  • Transduction (biophysics) Transfer-matrix method Transfer-matrix method (optics) Transfer operator Transfermium Wars Transformation optics Transformation theory...
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  • a French physicist who specialized in optics. In his 1949 doctoral thesis, Abelès developed a transfer-matrix formalism to compute the transmission and...
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  • Complex beam parameter (category Optics)
    imaginary unit. The complex beam parameter is usually used in ray transfer matrix analysis, which allows the calculation of the beam properties at any...
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  • }{T}}\\\end{matrix}}} and n is the harmonic number and T is the total time range of detection. FLIM has primarily been used in biology as a method to detect...
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    Principles of Optics, colloquially known as Born and Wolf, is an optics textbook written by Max Born and Emil Wolf that was initially published in 1959...
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  • Ray tracing (physics) (category Geometrical optics)
    distortion, arising mainly from atmosphere, optics and detector are taken into account. While this method of simulating images is inherently slow, advances...
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