Stokes Polarimeter optimization in the presence of shot and Gaussian noise

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 21240-21249

  Lara, David ^a   Paterson, Carl ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); NUMBER THEORY; POLARIMETERS;

CONDITION NUMBERS; ERROR MINIMIZATION; FIGURE OF MERITS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; POLARIZATION STATE ANALYZER; STOKES POLARIMETER; STOKES VECTOR;

SHOT NOISE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPHTHALMOSCOPE; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 70749089151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021240     Document Type: Article

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