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I propose a new optoelectronic device that completely and instantaneously measures the incident light's polarization for a narrow wavelength band in a single physical pixel. The device has four (or more) quantum-well active regions…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Serna

The detection of polarization states of light is essential in photonic and optoelectronic devices. Currently, the polarimeters are usually constructed with the help of waveplates or a comprehensive metasurface, which will inevitably…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-27 Chen Fang , Junze Li , Boxuan Zhou , Dehui Li

We address polarization coherence in terms of correlations of Stokes variables. We develop an scalar polarization mutual coherence function that allows us to define a polarization coherence time. We find a suitable spectral polarization…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-17 Alfredo Luis

The value of accurately knowing the absolute calibration of the polarizing elements in the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) becomes especially important when conducting studies which require measuring degrees of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Batcheldor , A. Robinson , D. Axon , D. C. Hines , W. Sparks , C. Tadhunter

We observe the build up of strong (~50%) spontaneous vector polarisation in emission from a GaN-based polariton laser excited by short optical pulses at room temperature. The Stokes vector of emitted light changes its orientation randomly…

We present a practical scheme for measurement-device-independent polarization shift keying using two state polarization encoding. Most of the previous work on optical free space laser communications through the atmosphere was concentrated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-25 Ram Soorat , Ashok Vudayagiri

Accurately estimating camera motion from image sequences poses a significant challenge in computer vision and robotics. Many computer vision methods first compute the essential matrix associated with a motion and then extract orientation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Tarek Bouazza , Robert Mahony , Tarek Hamel

Mueller matrices provide a complete description of a medium's response to excitation by polarized light, and their characterization is important across a broad range of applications from ellipsometry in material science to polarimetry in…

Polarization is a fundamental property of light that carries distinct and valuable information. Consequently, its precise measurement is crucial for numerous applications, including biomedical imaging, remote sensing, and optical…

We discuss different proposals for the degree of polarization of quantum fields. The simplest approach, namely making a direct analogy with the classical description via the Stokes operators, is known to produce unsatisfactory results.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 G. Bjork , J. Soderholm , L. L. Sanchez-Soto , A. B. Klimov , I. Ghiu , P. Marian , T. A. Marian

This paper presents a hybrid real-time camera pose estimation framework with a novel partitioning scheme and introduces motion averaging to monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems. Breaking through the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Xinyi Li , Haibin Ling

A standard procedure to achieve accurate, precise, and fast polarization measurement is to choose analyzing and generating polarization states that yield an $\ell^2$-condition number optimized instrument matrix. This strategy works well for…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 Yuxi Cai , An Aloysius Wang , Chao He

Developing an efficient and robust polarimeter for wide spectral ranges and space applications is a main issue in many projects. As part of the UVMag consortium created to develop UV facilities in space (e.g. the Arago mission proposed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Martin Pertenais , Coralie Neiner , Laurent Parès , Pascal Petit

A scheme is discussed for measuring Nth-order coherences of two orthogonally polarized light fields in a single spatial mode at very limited experimental cost. To implement the scheme, the only measurements needed are the Nth-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-05 Uwe Schilling , Joachim von Zanthier , Girish S. Agarwal

The launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), the first space-based polarimeter since 1978, offers a two order of magnitude improvement to the measurement of X-ray polarisation than its predecessor OSO-8, offering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Melissa Ewing , Adam Ingram , John Rankin , Fabio Muleri

A formalism for two-photon Stokes parameters is introduced to describe the polarization entanglement of photon pairs. This leads to the definition of a degree of two-photon polarization, which describes the extent to which the two photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ayman F. Abouraddy , Alexander V. Sergienko , Bahaa E. A. Saleh , Malvin C. Teich

A novel approach for measuring linear X-ray polarization over a broad-band using conventional imaging optics and cameras is described. A new type of high efficiency grating, called the critical angle transmission grating is used to disperse…

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

Full control of the ellipticity of broadband pulses of THz radiation, from linear to left- or right-handed circular polarization, was demonstrated via a 4-pixel photoconductive emitter with an integrated achromatic waveplate. Excellent…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-04 C. D. W. Mosley , J. Deveikis , J. Lloyd-Hughes

The most accessible method to measure polarization features of the CMB radiation is by means of a Stokes Polarimeter based on the rotation of an Half Wave Plate. The current observational cosmology is starting to be limited by the presence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 G. D'Alessandro , L. Mele , F. Columbro , L. Pagano , F. Piacentini , P. de Bernardis , S. Masi

We propose a new technique for radio interferometry to obtain super-resolution full polarization images in all four Stokes parameters using sparse modeling. The proposed technique reconstructs the image in each Stokes parameter from the…