کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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734973 | 893557 | 2011 | 6 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
Optical properties of matter as diattenuation, retardance and depolarization can be evaluated using polarimetric techniques. In this paper, the analysis and implementation of a complete Mueller polarimeter is presented. The system is constituted of a polarization state generator (PSG) and a polarization state analyzer (PSA), which are controlled and synchronized through a computer program. The PSG comprises a dual liquid crystal variable retarder system while the PSA is based on a two-photoelastic modulator setup. Using air and common polarizing optics as test samples for calibration at 633 nm, the hybrid instrument met a good precision when the Mueller matrices of those optical elements were measured.
Research highlights
► Two different phase modulating technologies, induced birefringence in liquid crystal and in fuse quartz, has been combined to develop a Mueller polarimeter.
► The proposed polarimetric system shows a low dispersion and a high accuracy when measuring under different conditions.
► A proper selection of four different Stokes vectors is sufficient to determine the 16 elements of the Mueller matrix, being two of them orthogonal.
Journal: Optics and Lasers in Engineering - Volume 49, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 723–728