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When inverting solar spectra, image degradation effects that are present in the data are usually approximated or not considered. We develop a data reduction method that takes these issues into account and minimizes the resulting errors. By…

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The polarization of light conveys unique information that can be exploited by crucial applications. The bulky and costly discrete optical components used in conventional polarimeters limit their broad adoption. A compact, low-cost…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Zhongjin Lin , Leslie Rusch , Yuxuan Chen , Wei Shi

The issues related to moving elements in space and instruments working in broader wavelength ranges lead to a need for robust polarimeters, efficient on a wide spectral domain, and adapted to space conditions. As part of the UVMag…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Martin Pertenais , Coralie Neiner , Pernelle Bernardi , Jean-Michel Reess , Pascal Petit

An approach for measuring linear X-ray polarization over a broad-band using conventional spectroscopic optics is described. A set of multilayer-coated flats reflect the dispersed X-rays to the instrument detectors. The intensity variation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Herman L. Marshall

X-ray polarimetry promises to deliver unique information about the geometry of the inner accretion flow of astrophysical black holes and the nature of matter and electromagnetism in and around neutron stars. In this paper, we discuss the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 F. Kislat , B. Clark , M. Beilicke , H. Krawczynski

We review the tools and procedures for the analysis of the data collected by X-ray photoelectric gas polarimeters, like the ones on-board the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). Although many of such tools are in principle common…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Fabio Muleri

A compact and broadband polarimetric imaging platform is presented, based on second-harmonic generation (SHG) in nonlinear flat-optics. The system employs periodic all-dielectric AlGaAs gratings to induce polarization-dependent SH emission,…

We present a new approach for correcting instrumental polarization by modeling the non-depolarizing effects of a complex series of optical elements to determine physically realizable Mueller matrices. Provided that the Mueller matrix of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Sarah A. Jaeggli , Thomas A. Schad , Lucas A. Tarr , David M. Harrington

We describe, and test, a method of obtaining spectrally and spatially sampled Stokes polarimetry measurements based on star test polarimetry enabled by a stress engineered optic (SEO). When the SEO is placed in the pupil plane of an imaging…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-17 David E. Spiecker , Thomas G. Brown

Four Stokes parameters (1852) define the polarisation state of light. Measured changes of the Stokes vector of light traversing an inhomogeneous sample are linked to the local anisotropies of absorption and refraction and are harnessed over…

Current mm/submm interferometers, like the Atacama Large mm/submm Array (ALMA), use receivers that register the sky signal in a linear polarization basis. In the case of observations performed in full-polarization mode (where the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 I. Marti-Vidal , W. H. T. Vlemmings , S. Muller

Wavelength-dependent polarization state of light carries crucial information about light-matter interactions. However, its measurement is limited to bulky, energy-consuming devices, which prohibits many modern, portable applications. Here,…

Polarimetry aims to measure polarization information of an optical field, providing a new freedom to enhance performance of optical metrology. Furthermore, the polarimetry in infrared (IR) range holds a promise for a wide range of academic…

Image datasets are essential not only in validating existing methods in computer vision but also in developing new methods. Most existing image datasets focus on trichromatic intensity images to mimic human vision. However, polarization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yujin Jeon , Eunsue Choi , Youngchan Kim , Yunseong Moon , Khalid Omer , Felix Heide , Seung-Hwan Baek

We present a pipeline that allows recovering reliable information for all four Stokes parameters with high accuracy. Its novelty relies on the treatment of the instrumental effects already prior to the computation of the Stokes parameters…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 I. Myserlis , E. Angelakis , A. Kraus , C. A. Liontas , N. Marchili , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , V. Karamanavis , L. Fuhrmann , T. P. Krichbaum , J. A. Zensus

Polarimetry, which is the ability to measure the scattering response of the environment across orthogonal polarizations, is fundamental to enhancing wireless communication and radar system performance. In this paper, we utilize the Zak-OTFS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Nishant Mehrotra , Sandesh Rao Mattu , Robert Calderbank

Speckle noise is an inherent disturbance in coherent imaging systems such as digital holography, synthetic aperture radar, optical coherence tomography, or ultrasound systems. These systems usually produce only single observation per view…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Tsung-Ming Tai , Yun-Jie Jhang , Wen-Jyi Hwang , Chau-Jern Cheng

Context: Polarimetry is a very powerful tool to uncover various properties of astronomical objects that remain otherwise hidden in standard imaging or spectroscopic observations. However, the reliable measurement of the low polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 S. González-Gaitán , A. M. Mourão , F. Patat , J. P. Anderson , A. Cikota , K. Wiersema , A. B. Higgins , K. Silva

We show that it is possible to measure polarization with a polarimeter that gets rid of the seeing while still measuring at a frequency well below that of the seeing. We study a standard polarimeter made of two retarders and a beamsplitter.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 A. Asensio Ramos

Given its unchallenged capabilities in terms of sensitivity and spatial resolution, the combination of imaging spectropolarimetry and numeric Stokes inversion represents the dominant technique currently used to remotely sense the physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-05 Francisco A. Iglesias , Alex Feller