He completed B.S. degree in Physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) in 1992. In 1993 he obtained a grant from the Ministry of Education of Spain to join the Group of Optics of that university and he received the M.S and Ph.D. in Physics in 1993 and 1996 respectively. In 1996 he joined the Department of Optics of University of Valencia. Since 1998 he works at the Department of Materials Science, Optics and Electronics Technology at the University Miguel Hernández in Elche, where he is a full professor of Optics since 2010.
He has been working on a variety of topics related to liquid crystal displays and its applications in diffractive and polarization optics, being coauthor of more than 100 articles published in peer reviewed journals. He has been a guest scientist at various international research centers like the Department of Physics at San Diego State University (USA), the FEMTO Institut at the Université de Franche-Comté (France) and the Departamento de Física at the Universidad de la Frontera (Chile).
Since 2007 he has bee the Director of the PhD Program on Industrial and Communications Technology Engineering at the Polytechnical School in Elche (Spain). From 2005 to 2014 he was the editor of the journal Óptica Pura y Aplicada (OPA), edited by the Spanish Optical Society (SEDOPTICA). Since 2014 he is Associate Editor of Optical Engineering.
He is a member of SEDOPTICA, SPIE and OSA. He was awarded as SPIE Senior Member in 2009, and as OSA Senior Member in 2010, and as SPIE Fellow member in 2014. In 2012 he received the EOS2012 Prize from the European Optical Society.
He has been working on a variety of topics related to liquid crystal displays and its applications in diffractive and polarization optics, being coauthor of more than 100 articles published in peer reviewed journals. He has been a guest scientist at various international research centers like the Department of Physics at San Diego State University (USA), the FEMTO Institut at the Université de Franche-Comté (France) and the Departamento de Física at the Universidad de la Frontera (Chile).
Since 2007 he has bee the Director of the PhD Program on Industrial and Communications Technology Engineering at the Polytechnical School in Elche (Spain). From 2005 to 2014 he was the editor of the journal Óptica Pura y Aplicada (OPA), edited by the Spanish Optical Society (SEDOPTICA). Since 2014 he is Associate Editor of Optical Engineering.
He is a member of SEDOPTICA, SPIE and OSA. He was awarded as SPIE Senior Member in 2009, and as OSA Senior Member in 2010, and as SPIE Fellow member in 2014. In 2012 he received the EOS2012 Prize from the European Optical Society.
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In the second part of this work, the method is experimentally highlighted by studying a rabbit leg ex-vivo sample. The obtained images of the ex-vivo sample illustrate how IPPs provide a significant enhancement in the image contrast of some biological tissues and, in some cases, present new information hidden in the usual polarimetric channels. Moreover, new physical interpretation of the sample can be derived from the IPPs which allow us to synthesize the depolarization behavior.
Finally, we also propose a pseudo-colored encoding of the IPPs information that provides an improved visualization of the samples. This last technique opens the possibility to highlight a specific tissue structure by properly adjusting the pseudo-colored formula.
The set-up has been experimentally implemented and some experimental concerns are discussed. The suitability of the system is provided by generating different experimental spatial distributions of polarization. In this regard, well-known polarization distributions, as axial, azimuthal or spiral linear polarization patterns are here provided. Based on the excellent results obtained, the suitability of the system to generate different spatially variant distributions of polarization is validated.
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