Performance analysis for a polarization imaging system with rotational alignment errors from polarizing elements

Jianlin Nie; Shengzhu Xiao; Mitsuo Takeda; Wei Wang

doi:10.1117/12.2599863

14 September 2021 Performance analysis for a polarization imaging system with rotational alignment errors from polarizing elements

Jianlin Nie, Shengzhu Xiao, Mitsuo Takeda, Wei Wang

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Proceedings Volume 11875, Computational Optics 2021; 118750Q (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2599863
Event: SPIE Optical Systems Design, 2021, Online Only

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In this paper, we give a spatial frequency analysis of polarization imaging system and study the effects of rotational alignment errors of the polarizer from their ideal orientations. With the help of newly proposed Optical Transfer Matrix (OTM) for a diffraction-limited polarization imaging system, we investigate the effects of polarization-sensitive aberrations from the generalized pupil matrix at the exit pupil plane. Here, polarization aberrations stemming from the angular alignment errors of a linear polarizer has been demonstrated. The performance of a polarization imaging system with rotational alignment error has also been evaluated based on a cost function based on OTM.

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Jianlin Nie, Shengzhu Xiao, Mitsuo Takeda, and Wei Wang "Performance analysis for a polarization imaging system with rotational alignment errors from polarizing elements", Proc. SPIE 11875, Computational Optics 2021, 118750Q (14 September 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2599863

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