Advanced Mueller matrix ellipsometry: Instrumentation and emerging applications

XG Chen, HG Gu, JM Liu, C Chen, SY Liu - Science China Technological …, 2022 - Springer
Mueller matrix ellipsometry (MME) provides the 4× 4 Mueller matrix of a sample under test,
which determines how the state of polarization is changed as light interacts with the sample …

Dual vortex retarder Mueller matrix ellipsometry

C Gao, F Wang, X Wen, J Weng, X Cao, B Lei - Optics and Lasers in …, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a dual vortex retarder Mueller matrix ellipsometry (DVRMME) that can extract
16 Mueller matrix elements by analyzing a single intensity image. Two customized vortex …

Self-registration of constant-step rotating Mueller matrix polarimeters

T Xuan, H Zhai, H He, C He, S Liu, H Ma - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Time-division framework is commonly used in Mueller matrix polarimeters (MPs), which
takes extra numbers of images at the same position in an acquisition sequence. In this …

Reconstruction and calibration methods for a Mueller channeled spectropolarimeter

G Zhou, Y Li, K Liu - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Channeled spectropolarimeter (CSP) measures spectrally resolved Stokes vector of light
and Mueller matrix of sample from a snapshot. While reconstruction and calibration methods …

Holistic and efficient calibration method for Mueller matrix imaging polarimeter with a high numerical aperture

Y Li, Y Li, G Zhou, X Yan, T Ning, K Liu, L Liu, A Liu… - Applied Optics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
High-numerical aperture (NA> 0.6) Mueller matrix imaging polarimeter (MMIP)(high-NA
MMIP) is urgently needed for higher resolution. Usually, the working distance of high-NA …

[HTML][HTML] Research on spectroscopic ellipsometry in China with future challenges

C Li, HT Tu, YX Zheng, SY Wang, RJ Zhang, HB Zhao… - Thin Solid Films, 2023 - Elsevier
Following the fast and advanced development of technologies worldwide in the early 1970s,
especially focusing on industry and academic applications, research on spectroscopic …

Design and calibration of a Mueller matrix microscope based on liquid crystal variable retarders

S Sheng, X Chen, C Chen, S Liu - Thin Solid Films, 2023 - Elsevier
Polarization imaging techniques have achieved broad applications in areas such as
material characterization, nano-scale measurement, and biomedical diagnosis. The Mueller …

In-situ calibration of the objective lens of an angle-resolved scatterometer for nanostructure metrology

J Zhang, J Liu, J Zhu, H Jiang, S Liu - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Due to the advantages of being non-contact, non-destructive, highly efficient, and low in
cost, scatterometry has emerged as a powerful technique for nanostructure metrology. In this …

Calibration of a collinear backscattering Mueller matrix imaging system

X Zhou, Y Fu, H Liao, Z Chen, Y Ji, Z Tang - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
A collinear backscattering Mueller matrix (CBMM) imaging system has clear advantages in
the detection of bulk biological tissues, which are highly scattering and depolarizing. Due to …

Extended eigenvalue calibration method for overdetermined Mueller matrix polarimeters

SA Rosales, EG Caurel, R Ossikovski - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The eigenvalue calibration method is a versatile approach that can be applied to any type of
the Mueller matrix polarimetic setup because a precise knowledge of the optical response of …