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US 2022/0026347 A1Published application
Single-shot mueller matrix polarimeter
AssigneeOxford University Innovation Limited
InventorsMartin BOOTH, Chao HE
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AssigneeOxford University Innovation Limited
InventorsMartin BOOTH, Chao HE
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A single-shot Mueller matrix polarimeter (1700), MMP, comprising: a polarization state generator (1706), PSG, arranged to receive a source optical field (1704) and provide a probe field (1708) having a plurality of spatial portions, each portion having a different polarization state; a polarization state analyser (1718), PSA, arranged to receive a modified probe field (1716) resulting from interaction of the probe field generated by the PSG with a sample under investigation, and further arranged to apply, to each of a corresponding plurality of spatial portions of the modified probe field, a plurality of retardances and a plurality of fast axis orientations; and a detector (1720) arranged to detect an output (1722) of the PSA.
A single-shot Mueller matrix polarimeter, MMP, comprising:
A hardware processor system and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing machine-readable instructions, wherein the processor system is arranged to receive data derived from an output of the detector of the MMP according to any preceding claim, the data being representative of a spatially-varying intensity of the plurality of portions of the modified probe field at the output of the PSA, wherein the machine-readable instructions, when executed, cause the processor system to reconstruct the Mueller matrix of the sample from said data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.