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Polarization plays an important role in various time-domain astrophysics to understand the magnetic fields, geometry, and environments of spatially unresolved variable sources. In this paper we present the results of laboratory and on-sky…

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We propose a new technique for radio interferometry to obtain super-resolution full polarization images in all four Stokes parameters using sparse modeling. The proposed technique reconstructs the image in each Stokes parameter from the…

The ability to measure polarisation, spectrum, temporal dynamics, and spatial amplitude and phase of optical beams is essential to study fundamental phenomena in laser dynamics, telecommunications and nonlinear optics. Current…

A simple, self-calibrating, rotating-waveplate polarimeter is largely insensitive to light intensity fluctuations and is shown to be useful for determining the Stokes parameters of light. This study shows how to minimize the in situ…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-16 Vitaly Wirthl , Cristian D. Panda , Paul W. Hess , Gerald Gabrielse

Metasurfaces composed of anisotropic subwavelength structures provide an ultrathin platform for a compact, real-time polarimeter. However, applications in polychromatic scenes are restricted by the limited operating bandwidths and degraded…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-18 Yueqiang Hu , Yi Zhang , Yuting Jiang , Quan Wang , Meiyan Pan , Huigao Duan

Inversion codes are numerical tools used for the inference of physical properties from the observations. Despite their success, the quality of current spectropolarimetric observations and those expected in the near future presents a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Asensio Ramos , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez

We describe a spectrally-filtered discrete-in-time downscaling data assimilation algorithm and prove, in the context of the two-dimensional Navier--Stokes equations, that this algorithm works for a general class of interpolants, such as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Emine Celik , Eric Olson , Edriss S. Titi

Polarization-resolved control and measurement of the optical field are essential for a wide range of photonic systems, including coherent communication, polarimetric sensing, and quantum information processing. We present a photonic…

We present a simple but powerful technique for the analysis of polarized emission from radio galaxies and other objects. It is based on the fact that images of Stokes parameters often contain considerably more information than is available…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-10 Lawrence Rudnick , Debora Katz , Lerato Sebokolodi

Polarimetric imaging is one of the most effective techniques for high-contrast imaging and characterization of circumstellar environments. These environments can be characterized through direct-imaging polarimetry at near-infrared…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Laurence Denneulin , Maud Langlois , Éric Thiébaut , Nelly Pustelnik

We derive a generalization of forward fitting for X-ray spectroscopy to include linear polarization of X-ray sources, appropriate for the anticipated next generation of space-based photoelectric polarimeters. We show that the inclusion of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Tod E. Strohmayer

An eight stage balanced modulation scheme for dual beam polarimetry is presented in this paper. The four Stokes parameters are weighted equally in all the eight stages of modulation resulting in total polarimetric efficiency of unity. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-10 K. Nagaraju , K. B. Ramesh , K. Sankarasubramanian , K. E. Rangarajan

An analysis of the matrix models representing the polarimetric properties of light and material media is carried out by using the concept of the coherency matrix, which leads to the identification and definition of their corresponding…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-18 José J. Gil

This paper is devoted to the primary spectro-polarimetric observation performed at the New Vacuum Solar Telescope of China since 2017, and our aim is to precisely evaluate the real polarimetric accuracy and sensitivity of this polarimetry…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Jun-Feng Hou , Zhi Xu , Shu Yuan , Yu-Chao Chen , Jian-Guo Peng , Dong-Guang Wang , Jun Xu , Yuan-Yong Deng , Zhen-Yu Jin , Kai-Fan Ji , Zhong Liu

Linearly polarized emission is described, in general, in terms of the Stokes parameters $Q$ and $U$, from which the polarization intensity and polarization angle can be determined. Although the polarization intensity and polarization angle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 C. A. Herron , B. M. Gaensler , G. F. Lewis , N. M. McClure-Griffiths

Channeled spectropolarimetry measures the spectrally resolved Stokes parameters. A key aspect of this technique is to accurately reconstruct the Stokes parameters from a modulated measurement of the channeled spectropolarimeter. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-15 Dennis J. Lee , Charles F. LaCasse , Julia M. Craven

Solar spectropolarimetric inversion -- inferring atmospheric conditions from the Stokes vector -- is a key diagnostic tool for understanding solar magnetism, but traditional inversion methods are computationally expensive and sensitive to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Ryan James Campbell , Mihalis Mathioudakis , Carlos Quintero Noda

The detection of the state of polarization (SOP) of light is essential for many optical applications. However, it is a challenge for cost-effective SOP measurement due to the complexity of conventional methods and poor transferability of…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-30 Yuxuan Xiong , Ting Jiang , Hao Wu , Zheng Gao , Shaojun Zhou , Zhao Ge , Ming Tang

Imaging polarimetry plays an essential role in various fields since it imparts rich information that cannot be obtained through mere intensity and spectral measurements. To retrieve full Stokes parameters, at least four sensor pixels are…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-28 Go Soma , Kento Komatsu , Chun Ren , Yoshiaki Nakano , Takuo Tanemura

Here, I overview one of the available techniques for the analysis of broad-band spectropolarimetric data, the Stokes QU-fitting. Since broad-band receivers have been installed at most radio facilities, the collection of radio data, both the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-24 Alice Pasetto