Application of the Stokes vector for the polarimetric characterization of a low density polyethylene

Exploiting the polarimetric information of electromagnetic waves is now the subject of growing interest in many research fields such as biochemistry, medicine, astronomy and remote sensing from space; because it increases considerably the number of information about the medium that we want to analyze. The object of this work is the exploitation of the Stokes formalism based on the study of the polarization in the light-media interaction, to see the influence of the temperature of the manufacturing process of polymer samples (low density polyethylene) on the optical characteristics and especially the polarimetric ones of a light beam passing through these samples. The results demonstrate that these techniques could provide information for the optical characterization of polymers in general.