Overcoming polarization aberrations in microscopy

EW Hansen - Polarization Considerations for Optical Systems, 1988 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A long-standing problem in polarized light microscopy has been the inability, due to
polarization aberrations, to achieve simultaneously high spatial resolution and high contrast …

Polarization ray tracing

E Waluschka - Proc. SPIE, 1988 - opg.optica.org
The Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's EOS Terra
Spacecraft will provide comprehensive measurements of ocean life (phytoplankton), land …

Polarization in remote sensing

WG Egan - Polarization Considerations for Optical Systems, 1988 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Various aspects of polarization in remote sensing are presented including mathematical
treatments and selected experimental observations. The observations are of the percent …

Polarization aberrations in the SAMEX solar vector magnetograph

JP McGuire Jr, RA Chipman - Polarization Considerations for …, 1988 - spiedigitallibrary.org
An optical design and polarization analysis of the Air Force/NASA SAMEX solar vector
magnetograph optical system is performed. Polarization aberration theory demonstrates that …

Spectropolarimetry of electro-optical materials

DH Goldstein, RA Chipman… - … for Optical Systems, 1988 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This paper treats the fundamentals of infrared spectropolarimetry as a step in understanding
and designing better spatial light modulators. It describes the issues in converting a Fourier …

Modeling of a magneto-optic read path

TD Milster, TS Gardner - Optical Storage Technology and …, 1988 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Elements of the read path of a magneto-optic (MO) storage device are the lens that focuses
the light onto the disk, the interaction with the disk, the propagation back through the …

Polarization Aberration Diagrams

RA Chipman, LJ Chipman - Polarization Considerations for …, 1988 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A computer program, the Polarization Aberration Diagrams Program, or PAD, has been
written to explore the forms of polarization variation associated with ray paths through optical …