
Multi-carrier channeled polarimetry for photoelastic modulator systems.
Photoelastic modulator-based polarimeters use multi-carrier modulation schemes that are more complicated than the single carriers of rotating optics. Current state-of-the-art reconstruction implementations favor mathematical simplicity by using significantly abridged subsets of channels. In this Letter, we extend our generalized channeled polarimetry principles to address the challenges associated with multi-carrier modulation schemes. We demonstrate the performance forfeited by existing systems through the use of an incomplete set of information channels, as well as propose a set of more optimal system parameters that achieve better reconstruction noise characteristics. The overall improvement corresponds to a better sensitivity of up to a factor of six.
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Published In
DOI
EISSN
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Publication Date
Volume
Issue
Start / End Page
Related Subject Headings
- Optics
- 5102 Atomic, molecular and optical physics
- 4009 Electronics, sensors and digital hardware
- 4006 Communications engineering
- 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- 0206 Quantum Physics
- 0205 Optical Physics