IMaX: A polarimeter based on liquid crystal variable retarders for an aerospace mission

Physica Status Solidi (C) Current Topics in Solid State Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1041-1045

  Uribe Patarroyo, N ^a   Alvarez Herrero, A ^a   Heredero, R L ^a   Del Toro Iniesta, J C ^b   Lopez Jimenez A C ^b   Domingo, V ^c   Gasent, J L ^c   Jochum, L ^d   Martinez Pillet V ^d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE MISSIONS; ANTARCTICA; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; FIGURE OF MERIT; HIGH RESOLUTION; INCOMING LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL VARIABLE RETARDERS; POLARIZATION MODULATION; PRE-FLIGHT; SOLAR ORBITERS; SPACE QUALIFICATION; STRATOSPHERIC BALLOON; VISIBLE IMAGING; ZEEMAN EFFECT;

CALIBRATION; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; POLARIMETERS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

MAGNETOMETERS;

EID: 77951096189     PISSN: 18626351     EISSN: 16101642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssc.200777771     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (30)

1. A. Álvarez-Herrero, T. Belenguer, C. Pastor, L. González, R. L. Heredero, G. Ramos, M. Reina, A. Sánchez, J. Villanueva, L. Sabau, V. Martínez Pillet, J. A. Bonet, M. Collados, L. Jochum, E. Ballesteros, J. L. Medina Trujillo, C. B. Ruiz, J. C. González, J. C. del Toro Iniesta, A. C. López Jiménez, J. Castillo Lorenzo, M. Herranz, J. M. Jerónimo, P. Mellado, R. Morales, J. Rodríguez, V. Domingo, J. L. Gasent, and P. Rodríquez, in: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation I: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter, edited by John C. Mather, Howard A. MacEwen, and Mattheus W. M. de Graauw, Proc. SPIE 6265, 62654C (2006).
2. R. A. Gonsalves and R. Chidlaw, in: Applications of digital image processing III; Proceedings of the Seminar, edited by A. G. Tescher, Proc. SPIE 207, 32 (1979).
3. M. H. Smith, J. D. Howe, J. B. Woodruff, M. A. Miller, G. R. Ax, T. E. Petty, and E. A. Sornsin, in: Polarization: Measurement, Analysis, and Remote Sensing II, edited by Dennis H. Goldstein and David B. Chenault, Proc. SPIE 3754, 137 (1999).
4. D. S. Sabatke, M. R. Descour, E. L. Dereniak, W. C. Sweatt, S. A. Kemme, and G. S. Phipps, Opt. Lett. 25, 802 (2000).
5. S. N. Jasperson and S. E. Schnatterly, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 40, 761 (1969).
6. G. E. Jellison and F. A. Modine, Appl. Opt. 36, 8184 (1997).
7. E. Compain and B. Drevillon, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 69, 1574 (1998).
8. J. S. Tyo and T. S. Turner, Jr., Appl. Opt. 40, 1450 (2001).
9. R. M. A. Azzam, I. M. Elminyawi, and A. M. El-Saba, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5, 681 (1988).
10. L. J. November and L. M. Wilkins, Opt. Eng. 34, 1659 (1995).
11. K. Shinoda, K. Ichimoto, T. Fukuda, and J. Shin, Rep. Natl. Astron. Obs. Jpn. 5, 97 (2001).
12. A. Hofmann, in: Polarization Analysis, Measurement, and Remote Sensing III, edited by D. B. Chenault, M. J. Duggin, W. G. Egan, and D. H. Goldstein, Proc. SPIE 4133, 44 (2000).
13. V. Mártinez Pillet, M. Collados, J. Sánchez Almeida, V. González, A. Cruz-Lopez, A. Manescau, E. Joven, E. Paez, J. Diaz, O. Feeney, V. Sánchez, G. Scharmer, and D. Soltau, in: High Resolution Solar Physics: Theory, Observations, and Techniques, edited by T. R. Rimmele, K. S. Balasubramaniam, and R. R. Radick, Astron. Soc. Pacific Conf. Ser. Vol.183, 264 (1999).
14. J. M. Bueno and P. Artal, Opt. Lett. 24, 64 (1999).
15. A. de Martino, E. Garcia-Caurel, B. Laude, and B. Drévillon, Thin Solid Films 455/456, 112 (2004).
16. A. de Martino, Y. K. Kim, E. Garcia-Caurel, B. Laude, and B. Drévillon, Opt. Lett. 28, 616 (2003).
17. R. H. Czichy, in: Space Optics: Space Instrumentation and Spacecraft Optics, edited by Thierry M. Dewandre, Joachim J. Schulte-in-den-Baeumen, and Emmanuel Sein, Proc. SPIE 2210, 420 (1994).
18. M. Fruit, A. I. Gusarov, D. B. Doyle, and G. J. Ulbrich, in: Photonics for Space and Radiation Environments, edited by Edward W. Taylor and Francis Berghmans, Proc. SPIE 3872, 60 (1999).
19. M. Fernández-Rodríguez, C. Alvarado, A. Núñez, and A. Álvarez-Herrero, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 53, 2367 (2006).
20. A. Graham, G. Kopp, C. Vargas-Aburto, and R. Uribe, in: Photonics for Space Environments IV, edited by Edward W. Taylor, Proc. SPIE 2811, 46 (1996).
21. F. Berghmans, M. C. Decreton, K. Zdrodowski, T. Nasilowski, H. Thienpont, and I. Veretennicoff, in: Photonics for Space Environments IV, edited by Edward W. Taylor, Proc. SPIE 2811, 2 (1996).
22. R. L. Heredero, N. Uribe-Patarroyo, T. Belenguer, G. Ramos, A. Sánchez, M. Reina, V. Martínez Pillet, and A. Álvarez- Herrero, Appl. Opt. 46, 689 (2007).
23. J. Hilfiker, B. Johs, C. Herzinger, J. Elman, E. Montbach, D. Bryant, and P. Bos, Thin Solid Films 455, 596 (2004).
24. M. Schubert, Theory and application of generalized ellipsometry, in: Handbook of Ellipsometry, edited by G.E. Irene and H.G. Tompkins (William Andrew Publishing, Norwich, N.Y., 2005).
25. P. G. de Gennes and J. Prost, The Physics of Liquid Crystals, 2nd ed. (Clarendon, 1993).
26. R. M. A. Azzam and N. M. Bashara, Ellipsometry and Polarized Light (North-Holland, 1977), pp. 169-173.
27. J. C. del Toro Iniesta, Introduction to Spectropolarimetry (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
28. E. Compain and B. Drevillon, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 68, 2671 (1997).
29. J. C. del Toro Iniesta and M. Collados, Appl. Opt. 39, 1637 (2000).
30. J. S. Tyo, Appl. Opt. 41, 619 (2002).