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We developed an instrument design capable of measuring linear X-ray polarization over a broad-band using conventional spectroscopic optics. A set of multilayer-coated flats reflects the dispersed X-rays to the instrument detectors. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Herman L. Marshall , Ralf Heilmann , Norbert Schulz , Kendrah Murphy

Stokes parameters are a standard tool in quantum optics. They involve averaged intensities at exits of polarizers. If the overall measured intensity fluctuates, as e.g. for states with undefined photon numbers, the instances of its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-07 Marek Zukowski , Wieslaw Laskowski , Marcin Wiesniak

Inspired by recent use of polarimetry to study the Cosmic Microwave Background and extragalatic supernovae, a foray into the statistical properties of Stokes parameters expressed in spherical coordinates is began, allowing circular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-19 Jason L. Quinn

An eight stage balanced modulation scheme for dual beam polarimetry is presented in this paper. The four Stokes parameters are weighted equally in all the eight stages of modulation resulting in total polarimetric efficiency of unity. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-10 K. Nagaraju , K. B. Ramesh , K. Sankarasubramanian , K. E. Rangarajan

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

Metasurfaces composed of anisotropic subwavelength structures provide an ultrathin platform for a compact, real-time polarimeter. However, applications in polychromatic scenes are restricted by the limited operating bandwidths and degraded…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-18 Yueqiang Hu , Yi Zhang , Yuting Jiang , Quan Wang , Meiyan Pan , Huigao Duan

Modern dual-polarization receivers allow a radio telescope to characterize the full polarization state of incoming insterstellar radio waves. Many astronomers incorrectly consider a polarimeter to be the "backend" of the telescope. We go to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Timothy Robishaw , Carl Heiles

We review a few useful concepts about polarization measurements in the quantum domain. Using a perfectly general formalism, we show how to build the quantum counterpart of some classical quantities like Stokes parameters and Mueller…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Aiello , J. P. Woerdman

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 present a simple but powerful technique for the analysis of polarized emission from radio galaxies and other objects. It is based on the fact that images of Stokes parameters often contain considerably more information than is available…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-10 Lawrence Rudnick , Debora Katz , Lerato Sebokolodi

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

In-line polarimeters perform non-destructive polarization measurements of optical signals, and play a critical role in monitoring and controlling the polarization environment in for example optical networks. While current in-line…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-10 J. P. Balthasar Müller , Kristjan Leosson , Federico Capasso

This paper focuses on a new problem of estimating human pose and shape from single polarization images. Polarization camera is known to be able to capture the polarization of reflected lights that preserves rich geometric cues of an object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Shihao Zou , Xinxin Zuo , Sen Wang , Yiming Qian , Chuan Guo , Li Cheng

The polarization of light conveys crucial information about the spatial ordering and optical properties of a specimen. However, precise polarization measurement in challenging conditions, including constrained spaces, low light levels, and…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-10 Martin Bielak , Dominik Vašinka , Miroslav Ježek

Researchers routinely characterize optical samples by computing the scattering cross-section. However, the experimental determination of this magnitude requires the measurement and integration of the components of the scattered field in all…

We have built and tested a compact, low-cost, but very-high-performance astronomical polarimeter based on a continuously rotating half-wave plate and a high-speed imaging detector. The polarimeter is suitable for small telescopes up to ~1 m…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jeremy Bailey , Daniel V. Cotton , Ain De Horta , Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer , Om Shastri

In recent years, handheld and portable terahertz instruments have been in rapid development for various applications ranging from non-destructive testing to biomedical imaging and sensing. For instance, we have deployed our Portable…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-22 Zachery B. Harris , Kuangyi Xu , M. Hassan Arbab

We present a complete polarization characterization of any quantum state of two orthogonal polarization modes, and give a systematic measurement procedure to collect the necessary data. Full characterization requires measurements of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jonas Soderholm , Gunnar Bjork , Andrei B. Klimov , Luis L. Sanchez-Soto , Gerd Leuchs

We present a novel approach to model ultrafast time-dependent nonlinear optical polarization sensitive signals emitted from randomly-oriented molecules. By projecting the laboratory-frame analyzer polarization axis into the molecular frame…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 R. L. Thurston , N. Shivaram , Th. Weber , L. Z. Tan , D. S. Slaughter

Image datasets are essential not only in validating existing methods in computer vision but also in developing new methods. Most existing image datasets focus on trichromatic intensity images to mimic human vision. However, polarization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yujin Jeon , Eunsue Choi , Youngchan Kim , Yunseong Moon , Khalid Omer , Felix Heide , Seung-Hwan Baek