Structured light refers to the arbitrarily tailoring of optical fields in all their degrees of freedom
(DoFs), from spatial to temporal. Although orbital angular momentum (OAM) is perhaps the …

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 …

An Up-to-Date Compendium on the Physics and Mathematics of Polarization Phenomena
Now thoroughly revised, Polarized Light and the Mueller Matrix Approach cohesively …

Polarized light is a pervasive influence in our world—and scientists and engineers in a
variety of fields require the tools to understand, measure, and apply it to their advantage …

The design and operation of a Mueller matrix imaging polarimeter is presented. The
instrument is configurable to make a wide variety of polarimetric measurements of optical …

For most optical systems it is typically assumed that the transmitted wavefront has uniform for
Gaussian) amplitude and constant polarization state. This is the default assumption of …

Context. Next-generation large segmented mirror telescopes are expected to perform direct
imaging and characterization of Earth-like rocky planets, which requires contrast limits of …

Depolarization has been found to be a useful contrast mechanism in biological and medical
imaging. The Mueller matrix can be used to describe polarization effects of a depolarizing …

A description is given of a modeling technique that is used to explore three-dimensional
image distributions formed by high numerical aperture (NA> 0.6) lenses in homogeneous …

Using vector diffraction theory and an exact method for computing reflection coefficients for
multilayer structures, we analyze the effects of high-numerical-aperture focusing on the state …