TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimal design and performance metric of broadband full-Stokes polarimeters with immunity to Poisson and Gaussian noise
AU - Mu, Tingkui
AU - Chen, Zeyu
AU - Zhang, Chunmin
AU - Liang, Rongguang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Optical Society of America.
PY - 2016/12/26
Y1 - 2016/12/26
N2 - In this paper, the design, optimization and analysis of broadband full-Stokes polarimeters with immunity to both Poisson and Gaussian noise are presented. Different from the commonly-used optimization metrics such as, the condition number (CN), the equally weighted variance (EWV), or the polarimetric modulation efficiency (PME) for Gaussian noise, the optimally balanced condition for Poisson noise (BCPN) is, for the first time, proposed and used as a metric for the optimization of polarimeters. The numerical results show that the polarimeters optimized with the BCPN have immunity to both Poisson and Gaussian noise. The broadband polarimeters optimized from the BCPN are achromatic and have similar polarimetric modulation properties over the waveband, in contrast to the polychromatic polarimeters optimized from the CN, EWV and PME, whose polarimetric modulation properties vary with wavelength.
AB - In this paper, the design, optimization and analysis of broadband full-Stokes polarimeters with immunity to both Poisson and Gaussian noise are presented. Different from the commonly-used optimization metrics such as, the condition number (CN), the equally weighted variance (EWV), or the polarimetric modulation efficiency (PME) for Gaussian noise, the optimally balanced condition for Poisson noise (BCPN) is, for the first time, proposed and used as a metric for the optimization of polarimeters. The numerical results show that the polarimeters optimized with the BCPN have immunity to both Poisson and Gaussian noise. The broadband polarimeters optimized from the BCPN are achromatic and have similar polarimetric modulation properties over the waveband, in contrast to the polychromatic polarimeters optimized from the CN, EWV and PME, whose polarimetric modulation properties vary with wavelength.
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U2 - 10.1364/OE.24.029691
DO - 10.1364/OE.24.029691
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85009242624
VL - 24
SP - 29691
EP - 29704
JO - Optics Express
JF - Optics Express
SN - 1094-4087
IS - 26
ER -