Title

Stokes Vector Correlations And Material Discrimination From Speckle Fields

Keywords

Coherence; Material Discrimination; Polarization; Statistics

Abstract

We examine the joint probability distribution of polarization information; specifically the joint distribution of the degree of polarization and the three Stokes parameters, as it relates to material properties in a highly scattering, highly depolarizing transmission geometry, making use of the Observable Polarization Sphere (OPS) for visualization of this distribution. We comment on the role of the source's coherence in terms of the polarization properties of the resulting speckle field, and describe numerical and experimental results of second order Stokes vector element correlations and their applicability to material discrimination.

Publication Date

12-1-2004

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

5432

Number of Pages

23-30

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.543321

Socpus ID

8844226736 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/8844226736

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