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Laser speckle is generated by the multiple interference of light through a disordered medium. Here we study the premise that the speckle pattern retains information about the polarisation state of the incident field. We analytically verify…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-13 Morgan Facchin , Graham D. Bruce , Kishan Dholakia

We report an experimental test of single-shot polarimetry applied to the problem of real-time monitoring of the output polarization states in each core within a multicore fiber bundle. The technique uses a stress-engineered optical element…

States of light encoding multiple polarizations - vector beams - offer unique capabilities in metrology and communication. However, their practical application is limited by the lack of methods for measuring many polarizations in a scalable…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-13 Davide Pierangeli , Claudio Conti

Polarimetric imaging aims to recover polarimetric parameters, including Total Intensity (TI), Degree of Polarization (DoP), and Angle of Polarization (AoP), from captured polarized measurements. In real-world scenarios, these measurements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Chu Zhou , Yufei Han , Junda Liao , Linrui Dai , Wangze Xu , Art Subpa-Asa , Heng Guo , Boxin Shi , Imari Sato

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 conventional high-level sensing techniques require high-fidelity images as input to extract target features, which are produced by either complex imaging hardware or high-complexity reconstruction algorithms. In this letter, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Hao Fu , Liheng Bian , Jun Zhang

We show that an intensity speckle can be directly interpreted as the properties of incident light - amplitude, phase, polarization, and coherency over spatial positions. Revisiting the speckle-correlation scattering matrix (SSM) method [Lee…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-07 KyeoReh Lee , YongKeun Park

We present an experimental test of the use of stress engineered optics incorporated into a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor in such a way that the shape of the point spread function (PSF) provides polarization information while the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-17 David E. Spiecker , Thomas G. Brown

An approach for measuring linear X-ray polarization over a broad-band using conventional spectroscopic optics is described. A set of multilayer-coated flats reflect the dispersed X-rays to the instrument detectors. The intensity variation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Herman L. Marshall

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…

Polarimetric interferometry is a method allowing the study of the distribution of polarized flux at diffraction-limited resolution. Its basic observable is the ratio $\mathcal{R}$ of the visibilities of the object in two orthogonal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Boris Safonov , Pavel Lysenko , Maria Goliguzova , Dmitry Cheryasov

Polarization is a degree of freedom of light carrying important information that is usually absent in intensity and spectral content. Imaging polarimetry is the process of determining the polarization state of light, either partially or…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-12 Ehsan Arbabi , Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali , Amir Arbabi , Andrei Faraon

Structured beams carrying topological defects, namely phase and Stokes singularities, have gained extensive interest in numerous areas of optics. The non-separable spin and orbital angular momentum states of hybridly polarized Stokes…

Measuring light's state of polarization is an inherently difficult problem, since the phase information between orthogonal polarization states is typically lost in the detection process. In this work, we bring to the fore the equivalence…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-16 Anders Pors , Michael G. Nielsen , Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

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

Characterization and analysis of spin-orbit coupled (SOC) states, as a measurement problem, play a vital role in research on the modern optics and photonics based on structured light. Here, we demonstrate determination of photonic SOC…

We present a new approach for correcting instrumental polarization by modeling the non-depolarizing effects of a complex series of optical elements to determine physically realizable Mueller matrices. Provided that the Mueller matrix of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Sarah A. Jaeggli , Thomas A. Schad , Lucas A. Tarr , David M. Harrington

Complete determination of the polarisation state of light requires at least four distinct projective measurements of the associated Stokes vector. Stability of state reconstruction, however, hinges on the condition number $\kappa$ of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-30 Matthew R. Foreman , Alberto Favaro , Andrea Aiello

Full Stokes filter-polarimeters are key instruments for investigating the rapid evolution of magnetic structures on the solar surface. To this end, the image quality is routinely improved using a-posteriori image reconstruction methods. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Asensio Ramos , M. J. Martinez Gonzalez , E. Khomenko , V. Martinez Pillet

Aims: We aim to achieve high spatial resolution as well as high polarimetric sensitivity, using an earth-based 1m-class solar telescope, for the study of magnetic fine structure on the Sun. Methods: We use a setup with 3 high-speed,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. J. van Noort , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort