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Article Dans Une Revue Applied optics Année : 2014

Long-range polarimetric imaging through fog

Julien Fade
Swapnesh Panigrahi
Anthony Carré
Ludovic Frein
Cyril Hamel
Fabien Bretenaker
Hema Ramachandran
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Mehdi Alouini

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We report an experimental implementation of long-range polarimetric imaging through fog over kilometric distance in real field atmospheric conditions. An incoherent polarized light source settled on a telecommunication tower is imaged at a distance of 1.3 km with a snapshot polarimetric camera including a birefringent Wollaston prism, allowing simultaneous acquisition of two images along orthogonal polarization directions. From a large number of acquisitions datasets and under various environmental conditions (clear sky/fog/haze, day/night), we compare the efficiency of using polarized light for source contrast increase with different signal representations (intensity, polarimetric difference, polarimetric contrast, etc.). With the limited-dynamics detector used, a maximum fourfold increase in contrast was demonstrated under bright background illumination using polarimetric difference image.
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hal-01025267 , version 1 (16-03-2015)

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Julien Fade, Swapnesh Panigrahi, Anthony Carré, Ludovic Frein, Cyril Hamel, et al.. Long-range polarimetric imaging through fog. Applied optics, 2014, 53 (18), pp.3854-3865. ⟨10.1364/AO.53.003854⟩. ⟨hal-01025267⟩
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