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In this study, we investigated Rydberg atom-based microwave electrometry using polarization spectroscopy in a room-temperature vapor cell. By measuring Autler-Townes splitting in the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) spectrum,…

Polarization diversity offers a cost- and space-efficient solution to enhance the performance of integrated sensing and communication systems. Polarimetric sensing exploits the signal's polarity to extract details about the target such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Byunghyun Lee , Rang Liu , David J. Love , James V. Krogmeier , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The polarimetry of the light scattered by planetary surfaces is a powerful tool to provide constraints on their microstructure. To improve the interpretation of polarimetric data from icy surfaces, we have developed the POLarimeter for ICE…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-25 Olivier Poch , Romain Cerubini , Antoine Pommerol , Bernhard Jost , Nicolas Thomas

Polarization imaging is a technique that creates a pixel map of the polarization state in a scene. Although invisible to the human eye, polarization can assist various sensing and computer vision tasks. Existing polarization cameras use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Noa Kraicer , Shay Elmalem , Erez Yosef , Hani Barhum , Raja Giryes

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

The B-Machine Telescope is the culmination of several years of development, construction, characterization and observation. The telescope is a departure from standard polarization chopping of correlation receivers to a half wave plate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-11 Brian D. Williams

An X-ray photoelectric polarimeter based on the Gas Pixel Detector has been proposed to be included in many upcoming space missions to fill the gap of about 30 years from the first (and to date only) positive measurement of polarized X-ray…

We propose a polarimetric microwave imaging technique that exploits recent advances in computational imaging. We utilize a frequency-diverse cavity-backed metasurface, allowing us to demonstrate high-resolution polarimetric imaging using a…

This book outlines the basic physical principles and practical methods of polarimetric remote sensing of Solar System objects and summarizes numerous advanced applications of polarimetry in geophysics and planetary astrophysics. In the…

This paper presents a polarization calibration method applied to a microwave polarimeter demonstrator based on a near-infrared (NIR) frequency up-conversion stage that allows both optical correlation and signal detection at a wavelength of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-25 Francisco J. Casas , Patricio Vielva , R. Belen Barreiro , Enrique Martínez-González , G. Pascual-Cisneros

The Gas Pixel Detector was designed and built as a focal plane instrument for X-ray polarimetry of celestial sources, the last unexplored subtopics of X-ray astronomy. It promises to perform detailed and sensitive measurements resolving…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Paolo Soffitta , Fabio Muleri , Sergio Fabiani , Enrico Costa , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Alessandro Brez , Massimo Minuti , Michele Pinchera , Gloria Spandre

NICMOS cameras 1 and 2 each carry a set of three polarizing elements to provide high sensitivity observations of linearly polarized light. The polarizers are bandpass limited and provide diffraction-limited imaging in camera 1 at 0.8 -…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. C. Hines , G. Schneider

Accessing the polarization of photon allows to understand the mechanisms behind its emission or scattering, revealing much about a peculiar environment or a probed object. For energy above $\sim$10~MeV, the pair production dominates the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-16 Maxime Defurne , Arthur Muhulet

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

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 report the design concept and performance of a compact, light-weight, and economic imaging polarimeter, TRIPOL (the Triple Range Imager and POLarimeter), capable of simultaneous optical imagery and polarimetry. TRIPOL splits the beam…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 S. Sato , P. C. Huang , W. P. Chen , T. Zenno , C. Eswaraiah , B. H. Su , S. Abe , D. Kinoshita , J. W. Wang

In recent years, handheld and portable terahertz instruments have been in rapid development for various applications ranging from non-destructive testing to biomedical imaging and sensing. For instance, we have deployed our Portable…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-22 Zachery B. Harris , Kuangyi Xu , M. Hassan Arbab

We present commissioning data for the POLISH instrument obtained on the Hale 5-m telescope. The goal of this high precision polarimeter is to constrain orbital inclination of high mass X-ray binaries and to therefore obtain independent mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sloane J. Wiktorowicz , Keith Matthews

The algorithm is described, which have been used for photo-polarimetric monitoring of various astronomical objects - cataclysmic variables, asteroids, comets.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Sergey V. Kolesnikov , Vitalii V. Breus , Nickolay N. Kiselev , Ivan L. Andronov

The polarisation of x-ray photons can be determined by measuring the direction of emission of a K-shell photoelectron. Effective exploitation of this effect below 10 keV would allow development of a highly sensitive x-ray polarimeter…