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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2008 Meeting
Section: Optics, Spectroscopy, Plasma and Lasers
Title:
Application of the matrix formalism in the analysis of the sample polarization properties by means of a Mueller matrix imaging polarimeter
Authors:
Ovidiu Toma, Emanuel Dinescu
Affiliation:
Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, P.O.Box MG-11, 0771253 Bucharest – Magurele, Romania
E-mail
thtoma72@yahoo.com
Keywords:
light polarization state, anisotropy, Mueller matrix polarimetry
Abstract:
This paper presents the matrix formalism required for studying the polarization properties of different samples using a Mueller matrix imaging polarimeter, in transmission.
The Mueller matrix imaging polarimeter used is a dual rotating retarder laser polarimeter, in which the sample (with enough good transparency), will be illuminated with different calibrated polarized states, followed by the analysis of the polarized light that arrived at a detector (a spatially resolved image of the sample).
The Mueller matrices of both the polarization state generator and the polarization state analyzer of the Mueller matrix imaging polarimeter will be theoretically calculated.
The experimental arrangement can be used in applications related on the investigation of the polarization properties for a wide range of samples.
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