Dual rotating-compensator multichannel ellipsometer: instrument design for real-time Mueller matrix spectroscopy of surfaces and films

RW Collins, J Koh - JOSA A, 1999 - opg.optica.org
We describe the design of a high-speed multichannel ellipsometer in the optical
configuration PC_1r (ω_1) SC_2r (ω_2) A having frequency-coupled rotating compensators …

Dual rotating-compensator multichannel ellipsometer: Instrument development for high-speed Mueller matrix spectroscopy of surfaces and thin films

J Lee, J Koh, RW Collins - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
A multichannel ellipsometer in the dual rotating-compensator configuration has been
developed for applications in real time Mueller matrix spectroscopy of anisotropic surfaces …

Multichannel Mueller matrix ellipsometer based on the dual rotating compensator principle

C Chen, I An, GM Ferreira, NJ Podraza, JA Zapien… - Thin Solid Films, 2004 - Elsevier
A multichannel ellipsometer in the dual rotating-compensator configuration has been
designed and constructed for applications in real time Mueller matrix ellipsometry (approx. 2 …

Useful Mueller matrix symmetries for ellipsometry

O Arteaga - Thin Solid Films, 2014 - Elsevier
In this work we derive the five patterns of symmetry of a Mueller matrix, a differential Mueller
matrix and a Jones matrix that can appear in ellipsometry measurements. While a general …

Two-modulator generalized ellipsometry: experiment and calibration

GE Jellison, FA Modine - Applied optics, 1997 - opg.optica.org
A two-modulator generalized ellipsometer is described that is capable of measuring all 16
elements of a sample Mueller matrix with four measurements made at different azimuthal …

Generalized ellipsometry and complex optical systems

M Schubert - Thin Solid Films, 1998 - Elsevier
Extension of spectroscopic rotating-analyzer ellipsometry with automated compensator
function to generalized ellipsometry (GE) is reported in order to define and determine three …

Expanding horizons: new developments in ellipsometry and polarimetry

DE Aspnes - Thin solid films, 2004 - Elsevier
This is the eighth in the aperiodic series of ellipsometry conferences, and the third devoted
specifically to spectroscopic ellipsometry. I discuss the evolution of the field mainly from a …

Systematic errors for a Mueller matrix dual rotating compensator ellipsometer

L Broch, AE Naciri, L Johann - Optics express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
The characterization of anisotropic materials and complex systems by ellipsometry has
pushed the design of instruments to require the measurement of the full reflection Mueller …

Automatic rotating element ellipsometers: Calibration, operation, and real‐time applications

RW Collins - Review of Scientific Instruments, 1990 - pubs.aip.org
In a typical reflection ellipsometry experiment, one characterizes the polarization state
change that a polarized light beam undergoes upon reflection from a specular surface. This …

Mueller-matrix ellipsometry: a review

RMA Azzam - Polarization: Measurement, Analysis, and …, 1997 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Techniques for the partial or complete determination of the Mueller matrix of elastic light
scattering by a given samples are reviewed. Important developments include several …