Apparatus for enabling wide-field polarimetry
AssigneeUniversiteit Leiden
InventorsChristoph Ulrich Keller, Frans Snik
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Abstract
A polarimetry apparatus comprising a plurality of flexible light conduits each having first and second ends, and a respective polarization modulator associated with each light conduit, wherein each light conduit is configured to receive incident light from a different predetermined region in space via the first end, and deliver said light to a detector unit via the second end, and wherein the polarization modulator is configured to modulate the polarization of the light to enable a partial or complete polarization state of the incident light to be determined by the detector unit for each light conduit.
Claims23
A polarimetry apparatus comprising a plurality of flexible light conduits each having first and second ends, and a respective spectral or temporal polarization modulator associated with each light conduit, wherein each light conduit is configured to receive incident light from a different predetermined region in space via the first end, and deliver said light to a detector unit via the second end, and wherein the polarization modulator is configured to modulate a polarization of the light to enable a partial or complete polarization state of the incident light to be determined for each light conduit.
A method comprising:
- receiving incident light from a plurality of different predetermined regions in space via first ends of a plurality of respective flexible light conduits;
- modulating a polarization of the light using a respective spectral or temporal polarization modulator associated with each light conduit;
- and
- delivering said light to one or more detector units via second ends of the respective light conduits to enable a partial or complete polarization state of the incident light to be determined for each light conduit.
A method comprising:
- providing a plurality of flexible light conduits having first and second ends, and a respective spectral or temporal polarization modulator associated with each light conduit;
- configuring each light conduit to receive incident light from a different predetermined region in space via the first end of the respective light conduit, and deliver said light to a detector unit via the second end of the respective light conduit;
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- configuring each polarization modulator to modulate a polarization of the light to enable a partial or complete polarization state of the incident light to be determined for each light conduit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.