Hannonen Antti, Hoenders Bernhard J, Elsässer Wolfgang, Friberg Ari T, Setälä Tero
J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2020 May 1;37(5):714-719. doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.385851.
We present here a novel ghost polarimeter based on Stokes parameter correlations and a spatially incoherent classical source with adjustable polarization state and Gaussian statistics. The setup enables extracting the four amplitudes and three phase differences related to the spectral $ 2 \times 2 $2×2 complex Jones matrix of any transmissive polarization-sensitive object. Our work extends the ghost imaging methods from the traditional intensity correlation measurements to the detection of polarization state correlations.
