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Spatial field correlation functions represent a key quantity for the description of mesoscopic phenomena in disordered media and the optical characterization of complex materials. Yet many aspects related to the vector nature of light waves…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-03 Kevin Vynck , Romain Pierrat , Rémi Carminati

We present a brief review of the polarization properties of the cosmic microwave background in dark matter models for structure formation. Quite independently of the model parameters, the polarization level is expected to be $\sim 10%$ of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Alessandro Melchiorri , Nicola Vittorio

We have tested the new experimental techniques in the M\"ossbauer spectroscopy with Synchrotron M\"ossbauer Source by using the polarization analysis of the reflected radiation. In particular we have shown that the dichroic components in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Marina Andreeva , Roman Baulin , Aleksandr Chumakov , Tatiyana Kiseleva , Rudolf Rüffer

By co-designing a meta-optical front end in conjunction with an image-processing back end, we demonstrate noise sensitivity and compactness substantially superior to either an optics-only or a computation-only approach, illustrated by two…

The transmission of polarized light through a two-dimensional randomly rough interface between two dielectric media has been much less studied, by any approach, than the reflection of light from such an interface. We have derived a reduced…

The interaction of polarized light with photonic crystals exhibit unique features due to its sub-wavelength nature on the surface and the periodic variation of refractive index in the depth of the crystals. Here, we present a detailed study…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-24 Priya , Rajesh V. Nair

Digital holography measures the complex optical field and transfer matrix of a device, polarization-diversity is often achieved through spatial multiplexing. We introduce angular multiplexing, to increase flexibility in the optical setup.…

Relating the electromagnetic scattering and absorption properties of an individual particle to the reflection and transmission coefficients of a two-dimensional material composed of these particles is a crucial concept that has driven both…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-02 Romain Dezert , Philippe Richetti , Alexandre Baron

Reflection removal is challenging due to complex light interactions, where reflections obscure important details and hinder scene understanding. Polarization naturally provides a powerful cue to distinguish between reflected and transmitted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Mingde Yao , Menglu Wang , King-Man Tam , Lingen Li , Tianfan Xue , Jinwei Gu

We develop a model for the reflection and transmission of plane waves by an isotropic layer sandwiched between two uniaxial crystals of arbitrary orientation. In the laboratory frame, reflection and transmission coefficients corresponding…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-29 Erik S. Thomson , Larry A. Wilen , John S. Wettlaufer

We identify a polarization rotation systematic in the far field beams of refractive cosmic microwave background (CMB) telescopes caused by differential transmission in anti-reflection (AR) coatings of optical elements. This systematic was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Xiaodong Ren , Rustam Balafendiev , Jon E. Gudmundsson

Polarized light microscopy provides unique opportunities for analyzing the molecular order in man-made and natural materials, including biological structures inside living cells, tissues, and whole organisms. 20 years ago, the LC-PolScope…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Shalin B. Mehta , Michael Shribak , Rudolf Oldenbourg

We have used polarimetric imaging to study the magneto-ionic medium of the Galaxy, obtaining 1420 MHz images with an angular resolution of 1' over more than 40 square-degrees of sky around the W3/W4/W5/HB3 HII region/SNR complex in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. D. Gray , T. L. Landecker , P. E. Dewdney , A. R. Taylor , A. G. Willis , M. Normandeau

Many polarisation techniques have been harnessed for decades in biological and clinical research, each based upon measurement of the vectorial properties of light or the vectorial transformations imposed on light by objects. Various…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-11 Chao He , Honghui He , Jintao Chang , Binguo Chen , Hui Ma , Martin J. Booth

One of the main advantages of reciprocal bianisotropic metasurfaces is their capability to produce asymmetric scattering depending from which side they are illuminated and on the handedness of circularly polarized illuminations. For most…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 F. S Cuesta , M. S. Mirmoosa , S. A. Tretyakov

Polarization images are known to be able to capture polarized reflected lights that preserve rich geometric cues of an object, which has motivated its recent applications in reconstructing detailed surface normal of the objects of interest.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Shihao Zou , Xinxin Zuo , Yiming Qian , Sen Wang , Chuan Guo , Chi Xu , Minglun Gong , Li Cheng

We experimentally demonstrate a three-dimensional chiral optical metamaterial that exhibits an asymmetric transmission for forwardly and backwardly propagating linearly polarized light. The observation of this novel effect requires a…

Can we capture shape and reflectance in stealth? Such capability would be valuable for many application domains in vision, xR, robotics, and HCI. We introduce structured polarization for invisible depth and reflectance sensing (SPIDeRS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Tomoki Ichikawa , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

Inverse transformation optics is introduced, and used to calculate the reflection at the boundary of a transformation medium under consideration. The transformation medium for a practical device is obtained from a two-dimensional (2D)…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-31 Pu Zhang , Yi Jin , Sailing He

We develop a polarization characterization platform for optical devices in free-space quantum communications. We demonstrate an imaging polarimeter, which analyzes both incident polarization states and the angle of incidence, attached to a…