Keynote Speech: Recent developments of division-of-amplitude photopolarimeters

Rasheed M. A. Azzam

doi:10.1117/12.246175

16 August 1996 Keynote Speech: Recent developments of division-of-amplitude photopolarimeters

Rasheed M. A. Azzam

Proceedings Volume 2873, International Symposium on Polarization Analysis and Applications to Device Technology; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.246175
Event: International Symposium on Polarization Analysis and Applications to Device Technology, 1996, Yokohama, Japan

Abstract

Fast (submillisecond) measurement of the complete state of polarization (SOP) of light, as determined by the four Stokes parameters, requires instruments that have no moving parts or modulators. This is accomplished by dividing the light beam, whose SOP is to be measured, into four or more beams that are intercepted by discrete (or array) photodetectors. The output electrical signals of at least four detectors (or array pixel groups) provide four linearly independent projections of the unknown Stokes vector of the incident light. This requires judicious choices of the beam splitting and polarizing optics.

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Rasheed M. A. Azzam "Keynote Speech: Recent developments of division-of-amplitude photopolarimeters", Proc. SPIE 2873, International Symposium on Polarization Analysis and Applications to Device Technology, (16 August 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.246175

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