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Forthcoming radio surveys will include full polarisation information, which can be potentially useful for weak lensing observations. We propose a new method to measure the (integrated) gravitational field between a source and the observer,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Jérémie Francfort , Giulia Cusin , Ruth Durrer

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

The accurate determination and control of the wavelength of light is fundamental to many fields of science. Speckle patterns resulting from the interference of multiple reflections in disordered media are well-known to scramble the…

Polarization of light is harnessed in an abundance of classical and quantum applications. Characterizing polarization in a classical sense is done resoundingly successfully using the Stokes parameters, and numerous proposals offer new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-05 Aaron Z. Goldberg , Daniel F. V. James

We present polarisation profiles for 48 southern pulsars observed with the new 10-cm receiver at the Parkes telescope. We have exploited the low system temperature and high bandwidth of the receiver to obtain profiles which have good signal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , R. N. Manchester

The radio polarization properties of the pulsar population are only superficially captured by the conventional picture of pulsar radio emission. We study the broadband polarization of 271 young radio pulsars, focusing particularly on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-16 L. S. Oswald , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , S. Dai , M. Kerr , M. E. Lower , R. N. Manchester , R. M. Shannon , C. Sobey , P. Weltevrede

Imaging polarimetry based on dielectric metasurface is well-known for its ultra-compactness and high integration. However, previous works suffer from low energy efficiency, limited restrictions on choice of target polarization states, or…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-06 Shuyi Wang , Tie Hu , Shichuan Wang , Ming Zhao , Zhenyu Yang

This paper describes a method for the explicit reconstruction and visualization of various polarization ellipses from the intensities measured after a rotating polarizer. The state of polarization of a light beam is represented by the…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-29 Ramonika Sengupta , Brijesh Tripathi , Asha Adhiya

The concept of pseudo-spin provides a general framework for describing physical systems featuring two-component spinors, including light polarization, sublattice degrees of freedom in bipartite lattices, and valley polarization in 2D…

Femtosecond-scale polarization state conversion is experimentally found in optical response of a plasmonic nanograting by means of time-resolved polarimetry. Simultaneous measurements of the Stokes parameters as a function of time with an…

Radio polarimetry is a three-dimensional statistical problem. The three-dimensional aspect of the problem arises from the Stokes parameters Q, U, and V, which completely describe the polarization of electromagnetic radiation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 M. M. McKinnon

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

In most pulsars, the circularly polarized component, Stokes $V$, is weak in the average pulse profiles. By forming the average profile of $|V|$ from single pulses we can distinguish between pulsars where $V$ is weak in the individual pulses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Aris Karastergiou , Simon Johnston

Mueller matrices provide a complete description of a medium's response to excitation by polarized light, and their characterization is important across a broad range of applications from ellipsometry in material science to polarimetry in…

Broadband-tunable sources of circularly-polarized light are crucial in fields such as laser science, biomedicine and spectroscopy. Conventional sources rely on nonlinear wavelength conversion and polarization control using standard optical…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-16 S. Davtyan , D. Novoa , Y. Chen , M. H. Frosz , P. St. J. Russell

Stokes polarimetry has been considered as an alluring platform that enables a plethora of applications ranging from single-molecule orientation to deep-space sensing. Existing polarimetry avenues, however, rely primarily on the transversely…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-06 Shuaijie Yuan , Xu Zhu , Jin Yang , Yu Liu , Jinhai Zou , Zhongquan Nie , Baohua Jia , Bing Lei

We develop a new method of extracting simultaneous measurements of weak lensing shear and a local rotation of the plane of polarization using observations of resolved radio sources. We show that the direction of polarization is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-28 Lee Whittaker , Richard A. Battye , Michael L. Brown

We demonstrate a polarimetry technique based on geometric phase measurements. The technique can be used to obtain either the polarization state of a light beam or the properties of a polarizing optical system. On the one hand, we apply our…

We present a portable polarimeter capable of real-time visualization of partial and fully polarized light over a broad band of wavelengths. Our system utilizes a Raspberry Pi computer with a low-cost data acquisition "HAT" (DAQ HAT) and an…

We develop two algorithms, based on maximum likelihood (ML) inference, for estimating the parameters of polarized radio sources which emit at a single rotation measure (RM), e.g., pulsars. These algorithms incorporate the flux density…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-25 D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler , K. J. Lee