A Polarimetric Wavefront Imager
Optics
2024-07-30 v1
Abstract
Imaging both the polarization and the wavefront of a light beam is a complex task that typically demands several intensity acquisitions. Furthermore, sequential acquisition solutions are incompatible with the monitoring of ultra-fast processes. As a possible solution for single-shot wavefront and full-Stokes polarimetric imaging, we propose here a vector-beam lateral shearing interferometer. The device, composed of a patterned polarization-modulating Hartmann mask placed in the close vicinity of a camera, encodes all the information in the fringe pattern of a single image acquisition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2407.19827,
title = {A Polarimetric Wavefront Imager},
author = {Baptiste Blochet and Grégoire Lelu and Miguel A. Alonso and Marc Guillon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.19827},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures