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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…

A new astronomical photo-polarimeter that can measure linear polarization of point sources simultaneously in three spectral bands was designed and built in Indian Institute of Astrophysics. The polarimeter has a Calcite beam-displacement…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-30 A. V. Raveendran , G. Srinivasulu , S. Muneer , M. V. Mekkaden , N. Jayavel , M. R. Somashekar , K. Sagayanathan , S. Ramamoorthy , M. J. Rosario , K. Jayakumar

Polarised light from astronomical targets can yield a wealth of information about their source radiation mechanisms, and about the geometry of the scattered light regions. Optical observations, of both the linear and circular polarisation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-18 Gillian Kyne , David Lara , Gregg Hallinan , Michael Redfern , Andrew Shearer

Polarized neutrons are a powerful probe to investigate magnetism in condensed matter on length scales from single atomic distances to micrometers. With the ongoing advancement of neutron optics, that allow to transport beams with increased…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-02 Jochen Stahn , Artur Glavic

We explore the capability of measuring lensing signals in $LiteBIRD$ full-sky polarization maps. With a $30$ arcmin beam width and an impressively low polarization noise of $2.16\,\mu$K-arcmin, $LiteBIRD$ will be able to measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 A. I. Lonappan , T. Namikawa , G. Piccirilli , P. Diego-Palazuelos , M. Ruiz-Granda , M. Migliaccio , C. Baccigalupi , N. Bartolo , D. Beck , K. Benabed , A. Challinor , J. Errard , S. Farrens , A. Gruppuso , N. Krachmalnicoff , E. Martínez-González , V. Pettorino , B. Sherwin , J. Starck , P. Vielva , R. Akizawa , A. Anand , J. Aumont , R. Aurlien , S. Azzoni , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , M. Bersanelli , D. Blinov , M. Bortolami , T. Brinckmann , E. Calabrese , P. Campeti , A. Carones , F. Carralot , F. J. Casas , K. Cheung , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , G. Conenna , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , M. De Petris , S. Della Torre , E. Di Giorgi , H. K. Eriksen , F. Finelli , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , G. Galloni , M. Galloway , M. Georges , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , R. T. Génova-Santos , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Gjerløw , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , L. T. Hergt , E. Hivon , K. Kohri , E. Komatsu , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , M. Lembo , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , J. Macias-Perez , B. Maffei , S. Masi , M. Massa , S. Matarrese , T. Matsumura , S. Micheli , A. Moggi , M. Monelli , L. Montier , G. Morgante , B. Mot , L. Mousset , R. Nagata , P. Natoli , A. Novelli , I. Obata , A. Occhiuzzi , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Pascual-Cisneros , V. Pavlidou , F. Piacentini , M. Pinchera , G. Pisano , G. Polenta , G. Puglisi , M. Remazeilles , A. Ritacco , A. Rizzieri , Y. Sakurai , D. Scott , M. Shiraishi , G. Signorelli , S. L. Stever , Y. Takase , H. Tanimura , A. Tartari , K. Tassis , L. Terenzi , M. Tristram , L. Vacher , B. van Tent , I. K. Wehus , G. Weymann-Despres , M. Zannoni , Y. Zhou

Polarization imaging can yield crucial information in multiple applications of remote sensing, such as characterization of clouds, aerosols, and the Aurora Borealis. Some applications require sub-percent polarimetric sensitivity and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Thijs Stockmans , Naor Scheinowitz , Erwoud van der Linden , Irina Malysheva , Kira Strelow , Martijn Smit , Frans Snik

Polarimetry is widely considered a powerful observational technique in X-ray astronomy, useful to enhance our understanding of the emission mechanisms, geometry and magnetic field arrangement of many compact objects. However, the lack of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Ronaldo Bellazzini , Fabio Muleri

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…

Polarization speckle is a fine granular light pattern having spatially varying random polarization profile. We generate these speckle patterns by using the scattering of Poincar\'e beams, a special class of vector vortex beams, through a…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-15 Salla Gangi Reddy , Vijay Kumar , Yoko Miyamoto , R. P. Singh

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…

We examine the potential for gamma-ray conversion to electron-positron pairs, either in the field of a nucleus or of an electron of a detector, to measure the fraction P of linear polarization of cosmic gamma sources. For this purpose we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-27 Denis Bernard

We designed and built a new astronomical photo-polarimeter that can measure linear polarization simultaneously in three spectral bands. It has a Calcite beamdisplacement prism as the analyzer. The ordinary and extra-ordinary emerging beams…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Srinivasulu , A. V. Raveendran , S. Muneer , M. V. Mekkaden , N. Jayavel , M. R. Somashekar , K. Sagayanathan , S. Ramamoorthy , M. J. Rosario , K. Jayakumar

The ideal imaging system would efficiently capture information about all fundamental properties light: intensity, direction, wavelength, and polarization. Most common imaging systems only map the spatial degrees of freedom of light onto a…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-26 Conner Ballew , Gregory Roberts , Andrei Faraon

We propose a novel approach to measure spin polarization of nucleons produced in electron--positron collisions. Using existing tracking devices and supporting structure material, general-purpose spectrometers can be utilized as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-07 Yu-Tie Liang , Xiao-Rong Lv , Andrzej Kupsc , Boxing Gou , Hai-Bo Li

We investigate the possibility of implementing a given projection measurement using linear optics and arbitrarily fast feedforward based on the continuous detection of photons. In particular, we systematically derive the so-called Dolinar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masahiro Takeoka , Masahide Sasaki , Peter van Loock , Norbert Lütkenhaus

We obtain new sharp weighted Poincar{\'e} inequalities on Riemannian manifolds for a general class of measures. When specialised to generalised Cauchy measures, this gives a unified and simple proof of the weighted Poincar{\'e} inequality…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Baptiste Nicolas Huguet

Single-shot fluorescence imaging techniques have gained increasing interest in recent years due to their ability to rapidly capture complex biological data without the need for extensive scanning. In this letter, we introduce polarized…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-31 Oumeng Zhang , Changhuei Yang

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

We attract attention to the fact that the ultimate (shot-noise-limited) polarimetric sensitivity can be enhanced by orders of magnitude leaving the photon flux incident onto the photodetector on the same low level. This opportunity is of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-14 P. Glasenapp , A. Greilich , I. I. Ryzhov , V. S. Zapasskii , D. R. Yakovlev , G. G. Kozlov , M. Bayer

A wide class of nonuniformly totally polarized beams is introduced that preserve their transverse polarization pattern during paraxial propagation. They are obtained as suitable combinations of Gaussian modes and find applications in…