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The maturity of current detectors based on technologies that range from solid state to gases renewed the interest for X-ray polarimetry, raising the enthusiasm of a wide scientific community to improve the performance of polarimeters as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-14 Sergio Fabiani

Coherence and correlations represent two related properties of a compound system. The system can be, for instance, the polarization of a photon, which forms part of a polarization-entangled two-photon state, or the spatial shape of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Jiří Svozilík , Adam Vallés , Jan Peřina , Juan P. Torres

The translation of imaging Mueller polarimetry to clinical practice is often hindered by large footprint and relatively slow acquisition speed of the existing instruments. Using polarization-sensitive camera as a detector may reduce…

In \citet{Guillemot2023} we presented a new method for calibrating pulsar observations conducted with the Nan\c{c}ay decimetric Radio Telescope (NRT), which significantly improved NRT polarimetric measurements and pulsar timing quality for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-16 Lucas Guillemot , Willem van Straten , Ismaël Cognard , Aurélien Chalumeau , Gilles Theureau , Éric Gérard

This paper presents, for the first time, the concept of polarforming for wireless communications. Polarforming refers to a novel technique that enables the polarization of an antenna to shape into a desired polarization state for aligning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Zijian Zhou , Jingze Ding , Chenbo Wang , Bingli Jiao , Rui Zhang

A deep neural networks based method is proposed to convert single polarization grayscale SAR image to fully polarimetric. It consists of two components: a feature extractor network to extract hierarchical multi-scale spatial features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Qian Song , Feng Xu , Ya-Qiu Jin

We review the algebraic definition of the efficiency of a polarization modulation scheme, which is commonly adopted for solar and stellar spectro-polarimetry applications, and generalize it to allow distinct states of the modulation cycle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Roberto Casini , David M. Harrington , Alfred G. de Wijn

The advent of sensitive polarimeters on large telescopes has led to a revolution in our understanding of active galaxies over the last 20 years. In the case of powerful radio galaxies the deep polarimetric measurements made possible by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Clive Tadhunter

Small amplitude inhomogeneous plane waves propagating in any direction in a homogeneously deformed Hadamard material are considered. Conditions for circular polarization are established. The analysis relies on the use of complex vectors (or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Michel Destrade , Michael Hayes

The dynamic spectrum of a radio pulsar is an in-line digital hologram of the ionised interstellar medium. It has previously been demonstrated that such holograms permit image reconstruction, in the sense that one can determine an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark Walker , Leon Koopmans , Dan Stinebring , Willem van Straten

A four-dimensional statistical description of electromagnetic radiation is developed and applied to the analysis of radio pulsar polarization. The new formalism provides an elementary statistical explanation of the modal broadening…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-03 W. van Straten

We investigate the process of circularly polarized high harmonic generation in molecules using a bicircular laser field. In this context, we show that molecules offer a very robust framework for the production of circularly polarized…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 F Mauger , A. D. Bandrauk , T Uzer

This paper discusses the science case for a sensitive spectro-polarimetric survey of the microwave sky. Such a survey would provide a tomographic and dynamic census of the three-dimensional distribution of hot gas, velocity flows, early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-09 Jacques Delabrouille , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Nabila Aghanim , Yacine Ali-Haimoud , David Alonso , Marcelo Alvarez , Anthony J. Banday , James G. Bartlett , Jochem Baselmans , Kaustuv Basu , Nicholas Battaglia , Jose Ramon Bermejo Climent , Jose L. Bernal , Matthieu Béthermin , Boris Bolliet , Matteo Bonato , François R. Bouchet , Patrick C. Breysse , Carlo Burigana , Zhen-Yi Cai , Jens Chluba , Eugene Churazov , Helmut Dannerbauer , Paolo De Bernardis , Gianfranco De Zotti , Eleonora Di Valentino , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Akira Endo , Jens Erler , Simone Ferraro , Fabio Finelli , Dale Fixsen , Shaul Hanany , Luke Hart , Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , J. Colin Hill , Selim C. Hotinli , Kenichi Karatsu , Kirit Karkare , Garrett K. Keating , Ildar Khabibullin , Alan Kogut , Kazunori Kohri , Ely D. Kovetz , Guilaine Lagache , Julien Lesgourgues , Mathew Madhavacheril , Bruno Maffei , Nazzareno Mandolesi , Carlos Martins , Silvia Masi , John Mather , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Tony Mroczkowski , Suvodip Mukherjee , Daisuke Nagai , Mattia Negrello , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Daniela Paoletti , Subodh P. Patil , Francesco Piacentini , Srinivasan Raghunathan , Andrea Ravenni , Mathieu Remazeilles , Vincent Revéret , Louis Rodriguez , Aditya Rotti , Jose-Alberto Rubino Martin , Jack Sayers , Douglas Scott , Joseph Silk , Marta Silva , Tarun Souradeep , Naonori Sugiyama , Rashid Sunyaev , Eric R. Switzer , Andrea Tartari , Tiziana Trombetti , Inigo Zubeldia

The use of the phase-delay improves substantially the accuracy obtained in VLBI astrometry with respect to the group-delay observable. Recently, Ros et al. (1999) have extended the related phase-connection technique to a triangle of radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ros , J. M. Marcaide , J. C. Guirado , M. A. Perez-Torres

Sparse modeling is one of the efficient techniques for imaging that allows recovering lost information. In this paper, we present a novel iterative phase-retrieval algorithm using a sparse representation of the object amplitude and phase.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-08-17 Artem Migukin , Vladimir Katkovnik , Jaakko Astola

The possibility of a polarization sounding of the pulsar magnetosphere is examined, using intrinsic pulsar emission as a probe signal, for modern radio telescopes operating in the meter and decameter wavelength range. Different models of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 O. M. Ulyanov , A. I. Shevtsova , A. A. Seredkina

We discuss instrumental and analytic methods that have been developed for the first generation of bolometric cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeters. The design, characterization, and analysis of data obtained using Polarization…

Many phenomena are described by bivariate signals or bidimensional vectors in applications ranging from radar to EEG, optics and oceanography. The time-frequency analysis of bivariate signals is usually carried out by analyzing two separate…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-09 Julien Flamant , Nicolas Le Bihan , Pierre Chainais

The Hellings-Downs (HD) correlation, which characterizes the signature of a stochastic gravitational wave background measured via Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTA), is derived using a harmonic formalism. This approach closely follows the framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-25 Cyril Pitrou , Giulia Cusin

We present a method for imaging small scatterers in a homogeneous medium from polarization measurements of the electric field at an array. The electric field comes from illuminating the scatterers with a point source with known location and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Patrick Bardsley , Maxence Cassier , Fernando Guevara Vasquez