Polarized Light and Optical Systems presents polarization optics for undergraduate and
graduate students in a way which makes classroom teaching relevant to current issues in …

In high-quality barcode readers, specular reflection from shiny barcodes is blocked by using
a polarized scan laser and a crossed polarizer in front of the detector. When complex …

This chapter discusses polarization vision for machine vision applications and shows it to be
useful in the real time classification of materials into metallic and dielectric surfaces. Light …

Compound eyes found in insects, besides performing their function in forming images and
motion detection are also sensitive to other properties of light, ie the wavelengths or vector of …