Opt Lett. 2018 Jun 1;43(11):2712-2715. doi: 10.1364/OL.43.002712.
A numerical study is carried out to find the experimental conditions necessary for the eigenvalue calibration procedure to work correctly in a liquid-crystal variable-retarder-based Mueller-matrix polarimeter. Using the error between the simulated experimental Mueller matrix in a polarimeter with errors and the expected ideal Mueller matrices for four calibration samples, the maximum experimental errors are estimated for a successful eigenvalue calibration. It is found that the retarder axes' orientations have smaller permitted errors than the retardation values.
进行了数值研究，以找到在基于液晶可变延迟器的 Mueller 矩阵偏振计中正确进行特征值校准程序所需的实验条件。使用具有误差的偏振计中的模拟实验 Mueller 矩阵与四个校准样本的预期理想 Mueller 矩阵之间的误差，估计了成功进行特征值校准的最大实验误差。结果发现，延迟器轴的方向比延迟值具有更小的允许误差。
