Gladish James C, Duncan Donald D
Appl Opt. 2017 Jan 20;56(3):626-635. doi: 10.1364/AO.56.000626.
Herein, we discuss the remote assessment of the subwavelength organizational structure of a medium. Specifically, we use spectral imaging polarimetry, as the vector nature of polarized light enables it to interact with optical anisotropies within a medium, while the spectral aspect of polarization is sensitive to small-scale structure. The ability to image these effects allows for inference of spatial structural organization parameters. This work describes a methodology for revealing structural organization by exploiting the Stokes/Mueller formalism and by utilizing measurements from a spectral imaging polarimeter constructed from liquid crystal variable retarders and a liquid crystal tunable filter. We provide results to validate the system and then show results from measurements on a mineral sample.
在此，我们讨论对介质亚波长组织结构的远程评估。具体而言，我们使用光谱成像偏振测量法，因为偏振光的矢量特性使其能够与介质中的光学各向异性相互作用，而偏振的光谱方面对小尺度结构敏感。对这些效应进行成像的能力使得能够推断空间结构组织参数。这项工作描述了一种通过利用斯托克斯/穆勒形式体系并利用由液晶可变延迟器和液晶可调谐滤波器构成的光谱成像偏振计的测量结果来揭示结构组织的方法。我们提供结果以验证该系统，然后展示对矿物样品测量的结果。
