Liquid-crystal micropolarimeter array for full Stokes polarization imaging in visible spectrum

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 17776-17787

  Zhao, Xiaojin ^a   Bermak, Amine ^a   Boussaid, Farid ^b   Chigrinov, Vladimir G ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUIDS;

COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; EXTINCTION RATIOS; MICROMETER-SCALE; NEUTRAL DENSITY FILTERS; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PHOTO-ALIGNMENT; POLARIZATION IMAGING; POLARIZATION ROTATOR; POLARIZATION STATE; QUARTER-WAVELENGTH; STOKES VECTOR; VISIBLE SPECTRA; WIRE GRID POLARIZERS;

POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; OPTICS; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 77956378121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.017776     Document Type: Article

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