Polarimetric characterization of light and media: physical quantities involved in polarimetric phenomena

JJ Gil - The European Physical Journal-Applied Physics, 2007 - cambridge.org
An objective analysis is carried out of the matricial models representing the polarimetric
properties of light and material media leading to the identification and definition of their …

Mueller polarimetric imaging system with liquid crystals

B Laude-Boulesteix, A De Martino, B Drévillon… - Applied …, 2004 - opg.optica.org
We present a new polarimetric imaging system based on liquid-crystal modulators, a
spectrally filtered white-light source, and a CCD camera. The whole Mueller matrix image of …

Influence of the order of diattenuator, retarder, and polarizer in polar decomposition of Mueller matrices

J Morio, F Goudail - Optics letters, 2004 - opg.optica.org
Polar decomposition consists of representing an arbitrary Mueller matrix with a product of
three simpler matrices, but, since these matrices do not commute, the result depends on the …

Time-resolved backscattering of circularly and linearly polarized light in a turbid medium

X Ni, RR Alfano - Optics letters, 2004 - opg.optica.org
Time-resolved backscattering profiles of circularly and linearly polarized light were
measured from a turbid medium composed of small and large polystyrene sphere particles …

The depolarization performances of the polarized light in different scattering media systems

F Shen, B Zhang, K Guo, Z Yin, Z Guo - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, with the aids of the Monte Carlo simulations, we have investigated the
depolarization performances of circularly polarized light (CPL) and linearly polarized light …

Improved method for calibrating a Stokes polarimeter

B Boulbry, JC Ramella-Roman, TA Germer - Applied optics, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We present a method for calibrating a polarization state analyzer that uses a set of well-
characterized reference polarization states and makes no assumptions about the optics …

Backscattering target detection in a turbid medium by use of circularly and linearly polarized light

SA Kartazayeva, X Ni, RR Alfano - Optics letters, 2005 - opg.optica.org
The polarization properties of the backscattered light from a turbid medium containing large-
diameter (10.143-? m) and small-diameter (0.202-? m) spherical polystyrene particles are …

Active imaging with the aids of polarization retrieve in turbid media system

Q Tao, Y Sun, F Shen, Q Xu, J Gao, Z Guo - Optics Communications, 2016 - Elsevier
We propose a novel active imaging based on the polarization retrieve (PR) method in turbid
media system. In our simulations, the Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm has been used to …

Optimized Stokes polarimeters based on a single twisted nematic liquid-crystal device for the minimization of noise propagation

A Peinado, A Lizana, J Vidal, C Iemmi, J Campos - Applied optics, 2011 - opg.optica.org
This work evidences the suitability of applying a single twisted nematic liquid-crystal (TN-LC)
device to obtain dynamic polarimeters with high accuracy and repeatability. Different Stokes …

Broadband extended source imaging Mueller-matrix polarimeter

JM López-Téllez, RA Chipman, LW Li… - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
An imaging Mueller matrix polarimeter, named the red–green–blue (RGB) 950, takes
images of medium-sized (tens of centimeters) objects by using a very bright source, large …