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The upcoming launch of the first space based X-ray polarimeter in $\sim 40$ years will provide powerful new diagnostic information to study accreting compact objects. In particular, analysis of rapid variability of the polarisation degree…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 Adam Ingram , Tom Maccarone

We present a simple novel scheme that converts a Gaussian beam into an approximated radially polarized beam using coherent polarization manipulation together with Poynting walk-off in birefringent crystals. Our scheme alleviates the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. B. Phua , W. J. Lai

Many circumstellar dust scattering regions have been detected and investigated with polarimetric imaging. However, the quantitative determination of the intrinsic polarization and of dust properties is difficult because of complex…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 H. M. Schmid , J. Ma

The opening of the gravitational wave window by ground-based laser interferometers has made possible many new tests of gravity, including the first constraints on polarization. It is hoped that within the next decade pulsar timing will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-09 Neil J. Cornish , Logan O'Beirne , Stephen R. Taylor , Nicolas Yunes

The method proposed in [I.R. Khairulin et al., JETP Letters 117(9), 652 (2023)] for converting the linearly polarized radiation of high-order harmonics of an optical field into the circularly polarized in an optically modulated active…

The response of a pair of differently polarized antennas is determined by their polarization states AND a phase between them which has a geometric part which becomes discontinuous at singular points in the parameter space. Such phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Rajendra Bhandari

A coherent optical spectrum analyzer is integrated with a rotating quarter wave plate polarimeter. The combined polarimeter optical spectrum analyzer (POSA) allows the extraction of the state of polarization with high spectral resolution.…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-14 Eyal Buks

The recent development of $\theta\mhyphen\theta$ techniques in pulsar scintillometry has opened the door for new high resolution imaging techniques of the scattering medium. By solving the phase retrieval problem and recovering the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Daniel Baker , Walter Brisken , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Rik van Lieshout , Ue-Li Pen

We present geometric-phase microscopy allowing a multipurpose quantitative phase imaging in which the ground-truth phase is restored by quantifying the phase retardance. The method uses broadband spatially incoherent light that is…

Polarization is a powerful diagnostic tool to constrain the site of the high-energy pulsed emission and particle acceleration in gamma-ray pulsars. Recent particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetosphere suggest that high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-28 Benoît Cerutti , Jérémy Mortier , Alexander A. Philippov

Correlation radiometers make true differential measurements in power with high accuracy and small systematic errors. This receiver architecture has been used in radio astronomy for measurements of continuum radiation for over 50 years; this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Harris

Recent investigations of microcavity frequency combs based on cascaded four-wave mixing have revealed a link between the evolution of the optical spectrum and the observed temporal coherence. Here we study a silicon nitride microresonator…

This paper presents a fast algorithm for full-polarisation, direction dependent calibration in radio interferometry. It is based on Wirtinger's approach to complex differentiation. Compared to the classical case, and under reasonable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-03 Cyril Tasse

Variable and higher pulse repetition frequencies (PRFs) are increasingly being used to meet the stricter requirements and complexities of current airborne and spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems associated with higher…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Yoangel Torres , Kamal Premaratne , Falk Amelung , Shimon Wdowinski

In this chapter we present a brief summary of methods, instruments and calibration techniques used in modern astronomical polarimetry in the optical wavelengths. We describe the properties of various polarization devices and detectors used…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Andrei Berdyugin , Vilppu Piirola , Juri Poutanen

Continuous gravitational-wave (CW) signals such as emitted by spinning neutron stars are an important target class for current detectors. However, the enormous computational demand prohibits fully coherent broadband all-sky searches for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-29 Holger J. Pletsch

Complex field measurements are increasingly becoming the standard for state-of-the-art astronomical instrumentation. Complex field measurements have been used to characterize a suite of ground, airborne, and space-based heterodyne receiver…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-25 Kristina K. Davis , Willem Jellema , Stephen J. C. Yates , Christopher E. Groppi , Jochem J. A. Baselmans , Andrey M. Baryshev

The performance of fiber laser systems has drastically increased over recent decades, which has opened up new industrial and scientific applications for this technology. However, currently a number of physical effects prevents further power…

Recently a data set containing linear and circular polarisation information of a collection of six hundred pulsars has been released. The operative radio wavelength for the same was 21 cm. Pulsars radio emission process is modelled either…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-11 Karam Chand , Subhayan Mandal

There are investigated amplitude-phase method of the moving object bearing when there are used orthogonal linear polarized radio signals illuminated simultaneously from two horizontally spaced points with known co-ordinates. The bearing is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 V L Gulko , A A Mescheryakov
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