Mueller matrix polarimetry of bianisotropic materials

O Arteaga, B Kahr - JOSA B, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Mueller matrix polarimetry is a powerful optical technique for characterization of both
anisotropic and bianisotropic materials. This review emphasizes methods for the …

Voigt exceptional points in an anisotropic ZnO-based planar microcavity: square-root topology, polarization vortices, and circularity

S Richter, HG Zirnstein, J Zúñiga-Pérez, E Krüger… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Voigt points represent propagation directions in anisotropic crystals along which optical
modes degenerate, leading to a single circularly polarized eigenmode. They are a particular …

Depolarizing metrics for plant samples imaging

A Van Eeckhout, E Garcia-Caurel, T Garnatje… - PLoS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Optical methods, as fluorescence microscopy or hyperspectral imaging, are commonly used
for plants visualization and characterization. Another powerful collection of optical …

Chiroptical differentiation of twisted chiral and achiral polymer crystals

HM Ye, JH Freudenthal, M Tan, J Yang, B Kahr - Macromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
Charles Mauguin, in his groundbreaking 1911 paper on mechanically twisted, nematic liquid
crystal cells, speculated on the possibility of measuring the effects on polarized transmitted …

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 …

Imaging dynamic scenes with a spatio-temporally channeled polarimeter

J Song, IJ Vaughn, AS Alenin, JS Tyo - Optics Express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Most channeled polarimeters modulate the intensity in a single independent domain such as
space, time, or wavenumber. Recently we proposed and modeled a concept for a system …

Method to calibrate a full-Stokes polarimeter based on variable retarders

I Montes-González, NC Bruce… - Applied Optics, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We present a calibration method for a full-Stokes polarimeter. The polarimeter uses two
liquid-crystal variable retarders (LCVR) and a linear polarizer to measure the four Stokes …

Polarization modeling and predictions for Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope part 5: impacts of enhanced mirror and dichroic coatings on system polarization calibration

DM Harrington, SR Sueoka… - Journal of Astronomical …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) is designed to deliver accurate
spectropolarimetric calibrations across a wide wavelength range and large field of view for …

Completing an experimental nondepolarizing Mueller matrix whose column or row is missing

R Ossikovski, O Arteaga - Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The authors report on an algebraic procedure, allowing for the completion of an
experimental nondepolarizing Mueller matrix with a column or a row missing to a full 16 …

Learning to classify materials using Mueller imaging polarimetry

Y Quéau, F Leporcq, A Lechervy… - … Conference on Quality …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This study investigates the combination of Mueller imaging polarimetry with machine
learning for the automated optical classification of raw materials. It shows that standard …