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A high-energy photon polarimeter for astrophysics studies in the energy range from 10 MeV to 800 MeV is considered. The proposed concept uses a stack of silicon micro-strip detectors where they play the roles of both a converter and a…

We present an approach to classical polarimetry that requires no moving parts, is compact and robust, and that encodes the complete polarization information on a single data frame, accomplished by replacing the rotation of components such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 William B. Sparks , Thomas A. Germer , Rebecca M. Sparks

An easily constructed and operated polarimeter precisely determines the relative Stokes parameters that characterize the polarization of laser light. The polarimeter is calibrated in situ without removing or realigning its optical elements,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-22 V. Wirthl , C. D. Panda , P. W. Hess , B. Spaun , G. Gabrielse

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…

Integration of optical elements into scalable chips has been at the center of a large effort in recent years. Concurrently, the separation between the diverse functions, namely switches, detectors or emitters increases significantly the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-09-16 G. Grosso , S. Trebaol , M. Wouters , F. Morier-Genoud , M. T. Portella-Oberli , B. Deveaud

Polarization information of the light can provide rich cues for computer vision and scene understanding tasks, such as the type of material, pose, and shape of the objects. With the advent of new and cheap polarimetric sensors, this imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Joaquin Rodriguez , Lew-Fock-Chong Lew-Yan-Voon , Renato Martins , Olivier Morel

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

The real-time, in-line analysis of light polarization is critical in optical communication networks, which suffers from the complex systems with numerous bulky opto-electro-mechanical elements tandemly arranged along optical path. Here, we…

Compact fiber-to-chip couplers play an important role in optical interconnections, especially in data centers. However, the development of couplers has been mostly limited to standard single mode fibers, with few devices compatible with…

In undergraduate optics courses, diffraction gratings are studied extensively, generally within the scalar approximation. When the vector nature of light is taken into account, so-called polarization diffraction gratings have been proposed,…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-13 Massimo Santarsiero , J. C. G. de Sande , Gemma Piquero

When light scatters off an object its polarization, in general, changes - a transformation described by the object's Mueller matrix. Mueller matrix imaging polarimetry is an important technique in science and technology to image the…

Optical neural networks are emerging as a powerful and versatile tool for processing optical signals directly in the optical domain with superior speed, integrability, and functionality. Their application to optical polarization enables…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-24 Alessandro Petrini , Claudio Conti , Davide Pierangeli

We report on the experimental implementation of a polarimeter based on a scheme known to be optimal for obtaining the polarization vector of ensembles of spin-1/2 quantum systems, and the alignment procedure for this polarimeter is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Ling , Soh Kee Pang , Antia Lamas-Linares , Christian Kurtsiefer

A fundamental road block for all-optical information processing is the difficulty in realizing a silicon optical transistor with the ability to provide optical gain, input output isolation and buffer action. In this work, we demonstrate an…

While optical technology provides the best solution for the transmission of information, optical logics still calls for qualitative new concepts to be explored. Exciton-polaritons are composite particles, resulting from the strong coupling…

We have developed a software-based polarization spectrometer, PolariS, to acquire full-Stokes spectra with a very high spectral resolution of 61 Hz. The primary aim of PolariS is to measure the magnetic fields in dense star-forming cores by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-04 Izumi Mizuno , Seiji Kameno , Amane Kano , Makoto Kuroo , Fumitaka Nakamura , Noriyuki Kawaguchi , Katsunori M. Shibata , Seisuke Kuji , Nario Kuno

Light's polarisation contains information about its source and interactions, from distant stars to biological samples. Polarimeters can recover this information, but reliance on birefringent or rotating optical elements limits their…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-21 Ryan D. Hawley , John Cork , Neal Radwell , Sonja Franke-Arnold

We present an approach to spectropolarimetry which requires neither moving parts nor time dependent modulation, and which offers the prospect of achieving high sensitivity. The technique applies equally well, in principle, in the optical,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 William Sparks , Thomas A. Germer , John MacKenty , Frans Snik

As a basic optical element, circular polarizer plays significant roles in signal transmission, measurements and life science microscopy. Three-dimensional (3D) chiral structures have been thought to be necessary to realize circular…

The polarization of final-state photons is a critical observable for probing the fundamental mechanisms of particle and nuclear interactions, providing insights into spin and parity structure that are inaccessible through cross-section…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-30 Xiao-Rong Lv , Yu-Tie Liang , Boxing Gou , Chuang-Xin Lin , Ai-Qiang Guo