Recently, with the emergence of new light sources, polarization devices, and detectors,
together with a prominent increase in data processing capability, polarization techniques …

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 …

Prior work demonstrated significant contrast in visible wavelength Mueller matrix images for
healthy and pre-cancerous regions of excised cervical tissue. This work demonstrates post …

Polarization imaging and Mueller polarimetry provide powerful tools for probing the
microstructure of complex anisotropic media, which is a core task in material science …

Background Using optical techniques for tissue diagnostics (so-called 'optical biopsy') has
been a subject of extensive research for many years. Various groups have been exploring …

The decomposition of the Mueller matrix of blood films has been carried out using differential
matrices with polarized and depolarized parts. The use of a coherent reference wave is …

Mueller matrix polarimetry is a potentially powerful tool for biomedical diagnosis. Recently,
the transmission Mueller matrix microscope and backscattering Mueller matrix endoscope …

Annually, about 15 million preterm infants are born in the world. Of these, due to
complications resulting from their premature birth, about 1 million would die before the age …

We have developed a polarization microscope based on a commercial transmission
microscope. We replace the halogen light source by a collimated LED light source module of …

Spectropolarimetry of intact plant leaves allows to probe the molecular architecture of
vegetation photosynthesis in a non-invasive and non-destructive way and, as such, can offer …