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    • Optics and Photonics
    • Polarization Optics
    • Interferometry

    Background:

    • Optical systems' polarizing properties are crucial for applications like interferometry.
    • Phase shifts in optical systems can cause coherence losses, highlighting the importance of neutral axes for fringe contrast.
    • Standard neutral axes, which preserve polarization state, do not always exist in optical systems.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To generalize the concept of neutral axes for optical systems.
    • To define and investigate the existence of generalized neutral axes.
    • To propose a new formalism for describing polarizing properties of nondepolarizing optical systems.

    Main Methods:

    • Defining generalized neutral axes as linear polarizations whose orientation is modified but polarization state remains unchanged.
    • Investigating the existence of these generalized neutral axes for various optical system classes.
    • Employing quasi-unitary Jones matrices to approximate optical systems where generalized neutral axes are absent.

    Main Results:

    • Generalized neutral axes are shown to exist for specific classes of optical systems.
    • A formalism using quasi-unitary Jones matrices is proposed for systems lacking generalized neutral axes.
    • This approach offers a novel method for characterizing the polarizing behavior of nondepolarizing optical systems.

    Conclusions:

    • The concept of generalized neutral axes provides a more comprehensive understanding of optical system polarization.
    • The proposed quasi-unitary Jones matrix formalism is a valuable tool for analyzing optical systems, particularly when exact neutral axes are not present.
    • This work introduces a new scheme for describing the polarizing properties of nondepolarizing optical systems.