Patent ID: 7477387

Claim:
A method for analyzing optical characteristics of an optical medium comprising: illuminating an optical medium, having an input surface and an output surface of light, with at least three input light beams differed from each other in a polarization state, respectively from a direction inclined by a polar angle θ (0°<θ<90°) with regard to the input surface; obtaining polarization states of output light beams coming out from the output surface, corresponded to the input light beams; and determining the Jones matrix M which can satisfy the equation (1) below with polarization vectors of the input light beams and polarization vectors of the output light beams: ( Es ′ Ep ′ ) = Q ′ × M × Q × ( Es Ep ) ( 1 ) where, Es and Ep are polarization vectors of s-polarization and p-polarization of an input light beam, respectively; Es′ and Ep′ are polarization vectors of s-polarization and p-polarization of a correspondent output light beam, respectively; Q is a dynamics matrix expressing change in a polarization state of an input light beam going into the optical medium from the air; and Q′ is a dynamics matrix expressing change in a polarization state of an output light beam going from the optical medium into the air.