Many polarisation techniques have been harnessed for decades in biological and clinical
research, each based upon measurement of the vectorial properties of light or the vectorial …

The review contains a systematization of the main approaches to the practical
implementation of Mueller matrix polarimetry and the prospects for its application in biology …

A full Poincaré (FP) beam possesses all possible optical spin states in its cross section,
which constitutes an optical analog of a skyrmion. Until now FP beams have been …

Recently, a variety of mechanisms have been discovered that extend the range of optical
techniques for identifying and characterizing molecular chirality, beyond those associated …

Stokes phase is the phase difference between orthogonal component states in the
decomposition of any polarization state. Phase singularities in the Stokes phase distribution …

A graphene-based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) prism coupler sensor is proposed for
the rapid detection of immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies. The feasibility of the proposed …

We highlight the potential of a predictive optical model method for tissue recognition, based
on the statistical analysis of different polarimetric indicators that retrieve complete …

Polarization of a light beam is traditionally studied under the hypothesis that the state of
polarization is uniform across the transverse section of the beam. In such a case, if the …

In this work, we performed a Mueller matrix imaging analysis of two commercial optical
components usually employed to generate and manipulate vector beams—a radial polarizer …

Hybrid order Poincaré spheres to represent more general Stokes singularities are
presented. Polarization singularities form a subset of Stokes singularities, and therefore …