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High-speed degree of polarization imaging with a ferroelectric liquid-crystal modulator

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Images describing polarimetric characteristics of objects are more and more used when studying complex scenes. In some cases, only the depolarization phenomenon, rather due to scattering, proves of interest and estimating the degree of polarization (DOP) is sufficient. For a linearly polarized beam under normal incidence, when the materials in the scene exhibit neither birefringence nor dichroism, it comes down to an intensity measurement in two crossed directions. Nevertheless, the optical classical set-up mainly consisting of a rotating polarizer used as a polarization state analyzer gives good quality images, but cannot provide dynamic information. In this paper, we propose to use a ferroelectric liquid crystal modulator in an imaging polarimeter. We demonstrate the use of this modulator as a polarization state analyzer for frame rates of up to about 400 Hz. Provided a fast camera is used, we show that the polarimeter, allows to overcome the classical video frame rate. We propose a set-up using a rapid CCD camera (up to 233 Hz). Images in degree of polarization are of very high-quality 1 and hold their own against images obtained with a classical polarizer. With a faster camera, we were able to obtain images at up to 400Hz.
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hal-00910764 , version 1 (14-03-2022)

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Albéric Jaulin, Laurent Bigue, Pierre Ambs. High-speed degree of polarization imaging with a ferroelectric liquid-crystal modulator. Optical Engineering, 2008, 47 (3), pp.033201. ⟨10.1117/1.2894811⟩. ⟨hal-00910764⟩

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