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Strain engineering in semiconductor transistor devices has become vital in the semiconductor industry due to the ever increasing need for performance enhancement at the nanoscale. Raman spectroscopy is a non-invasive measurement technique…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-17 V. Prabhakara , T. Nuytten , H. Bender , W. Vandervorst , S. Bals , J. Verbeeck

The Polstar mission will provide for a space-borne 60cm telescope operating at UV wavelengths with spectropolarimetric capability capturing all four Stokes parameters (intensity, two linear polarization components, and circular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Paul A. Scowen , Ken Gayley , Coralie Neiner , Gopal Vasudevan , Robert Woodruff , Richard Ignace , Roberto Casini , Tony Hull , Alison Nordt , H. Philip Stahl

The framework of measurement operators plays a fundamental role in extracting information about quantum systems. Recently, techniques based on induced coherence have been developed to access the same information for undetected photons.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Jaroslav Kysela , Markus Gräfe , Jorge Fuenzalida

Many different methods exist for reducing data obtained when an astronomical source is studied with a two-channel polarimeter, such as a Wollaston prism system. This paper presents a rigorous method of reducing the data from raw aperture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Leyshon

This work aims to identify the relevant physical processes in shaping the intensity and polarization patterns of the solar K I D lines through spectral syntheses, placing particular emphasis on the D2 line. The theoretical Stokes profiles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-26 Ernest Alsina Ballester

We report on polarimetric observations of 100 pulsars centered on 774 MHz, made using the Green Bank Telescope, presenting their polarization profiles and polarized flux densities and comparing them with previous observations when possible.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-25 J. L. Han , P. B. Demorest , W. van Straten , A. G. Lyne

We consider cross-spectral purity in random nonstationary electromagnetic beams in terms of the Stokes parameters representing the spectral density and the spectral polarization state. We show that a Stokes parameter being cross-spectrally…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-24 Jyrki Laatikainen , Ari T. Friberg , Tero Setälä

Photonic Crystal Fibers can be tailored to increase the effective Kerr nonlinearity, while producing smaller amounts of excess noise compared to standard silicon fibers. Using these features of Photonic Crystal Fibers we create polarization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Josip Milanovic , Mikael Lassen , Ulrik L. Andersen , Gerd Leuchs

Conventional ground-based optical telescopes, even those with large apertures, primarily observe stars, close binaries, and multiple systems as unresolved point sources through photometric measurements. Spectroscopy can identify multiple…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Km Nitu Rai , Neelam Panwar , Jeewan C Pandey , T S Kumar , Subrata Sarangi , Prasenjit Saha

We propose a theory for a type of apertureless scanning near field microscopy that is intended to allow the measurement of magnetism on a nanometer length scale. A scanning probe, for example a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip, is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Johansson , S. Peter Apell , D. R. Penn

The radio polarization characteristics of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) differ significantly from those of non-recycled pulsars. In particular, the position angle (PA) swings of many MSPs deviate from the S-shape predicted by the rotating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 C. T. Y. Chung , A. Melatos

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. van Noort

With the rapid development of asteroseismology thanks to space-based photometry missions such as CoRoT, Kepler, TESS, and in the future, PLATO, and the use of inversion techniques, quasi-model-independent constraints on the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 J. Bétrisey , G. Buldgen

A fast multichannel Stokes/Mueller polarimeter with no mechanically moving parts has been designed to have close to optimal performance from 430-2000 nm by applying a genetic algorithm. Stokes (Mueller) polarimeters are characterized by…

We have developed a vacuum-ultraviolet spectropolarimeter to measure the linear polarization of spectral lines around the Lyman-$\alpha$ wavelength. The main components for polarimetry are a rotatable MgF$_2$ waveplate and a SiO$_2$/MgF$_2$…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Nobuyuki Nakamura , Ryohko Ishikawa , Motoshi Goto

We present a comprehensive investigation of the radio polarization properties within the theory of natural electromagnetic wave modes in pulsar magnetospheres. Taking into account the curvature of the field lines, aberration effects and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexis von Hoensbroech , Harald Lesch , Thomas Kunzl

Designed at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory the SL-method of stellar magnetic field measurement is based on the calculation of the distance between the centers of gravity of the left and right circularly polarized components of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-04 S. Plachinda , D. Shulyak , N. Pankov

We observe the polarization squeezing in the mixture of a two mode squeezed vacuum and a simple coherent light through a linear polarization beam splitter. Squeezed vacuum not being squeezed in polarization, generates polarization squeezed…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-21 Namrata Shukla , Ranjana Prakash

We study the direction- and wavelength-dependent polarization anisotropy in light scattering at the air-photonic crystal interface as a function of angle of incidence for TE and TM polarized light. This is done using optical reflectivity…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-06 Priya , Rajesh V. Nair

Optical fields polarized along three dimensions are frequent in optical microscopy and nanophotonics, and yet retrieving their polarization distribution is challenging. We present the experimental implementation of three-dimensional (3D)…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-17 Isael Herrera , Miguel A. Alonso , Sophie Brasselet