光纤型偏振OCT 系统中光偏振特性的研究

建立了偏振光在生物组织中传播的模型,并利用该模型模拟了偏振光在生物组织中传播的过程,重建了多种偏振态输入光的情况下光偏振态在生物组织中的分布及生物组织的偏振特性模型.分析了光偏振度与光被生物组织散射次数的关系,阐明了由于偏振光在组织中传播,其偏振态逐渐改变而造成的偏振OCT 干涉计两臂光束失去相干性及偏振OCT 图像质量下降现象.通过分析斯托克斯(Stokes)矢量和穆勒(Muller)矩阵在光纤型偏振OCT系统中的应用,说明Muller 矩阵不受输入光偏振态的影响,因此它比Stokes 矢量更适用于光纤型偏振OCT 系统研究.     

光栅分振幅光偏振测量系统的研制

使用一个既能产生反射光衍射又能产生透射光衍射的特殊金属光栅作为分光器,研制一种新颖的高速光波偏振态测量系统。它没有使用转动光学部件或调制器,而是将金属光栅产生的四条1级衍射光的光强线性地转换为电信号,通过定标方法得到系统的非奇异的仪器矩阵,然后通过线性运算得到入射光的待测Stokes矢量。该系统结构紧凑、安装方便,可用作实时偏振测量术和椭偏测量术中的偏振态探测器。     

基于旋转偏光片的角度测量装置研究

本文提出并设计了一种基于旋转偏光片的角度检测装置,根据旋转偏光片透光的马吕斯定律,合理设计机械齿轮传动比和光电传感方案,利用不同偏振方向偏光片在旋转过程中产生不同相位的周期信号,经光电信号转换后产生2相正弦交变电压信号.采用自带运算功能的示波器在对初级电压信号进行预处理后,基于反正切角度计算原理进行角度实时运算,成功实现了旋转角度的测量方案.     

分振幅光偏振测量仪

分振幅光偏振测量仪（DOAP）是高速测量光偏振的传感器,它利用振幅分割原理,能够同时近似实时地测量出描述光偏振态的所有4个Stokes参数。从装置结构、定标方法、工作波长和应用领域等方面,对最近20年多年来国内外在该领域的研究状况进行了较为详细的分析和总结,并指出了该技术的发展方向。     

染料吸光系数在PVA膜染色中的应用研究

通过进行直接染料标准溶液的吸光度A-浓度[C]的标准曲线和PVA膜染色实验,分析了染料的吸光系数与PVA膜的染色深度成正比关系,与偏光子的透过率成反比关系。并阐述了染料吸光系数在染料系偏光片PVA膜染色中的应用,为染料系偏光片试验、生产使用各种染料的需用量提供了一个有效的分析方法,不同染料可以根据吸光系数来判断达到规定透过率的染料用量,同时可以选择吸光系数较大的染料进行生产,既提高效率降低成本,又大大降低环境染料。这些研究对于染料系偏光片的工艺完善有着重大研究意义。     

偏振分光镜传输系数不等对非线性误差的影响

为了减小激光外差干涉非线性误差,必须考虑偏振分光镜透过率和反射率不等对非线性误差的影响。通过分析两臂透过率与反射率不等对测量信号的影响,推导出两臂反射率与透过率不等对激光外差干涉非线性误差一次谐波和二次谐波影响的理论模型。仿真结果表明,透过率与反射率不等将严重的影响非线性误差一次谐波的大小,当反射率为1而透射率由1变为0．85时,其非线性误差由0、56nm增加到2．03nm,同时非线性误差只是一次谐波和二次谐波的简单叠加。仿真结果表明调整偏振分光镜的旋转角度误差能够有效的消除两臂透过率与反射率不等对非线性误差的影响。为进一步指导调整减小或消除非线性误差提供了理论依据。     

高精度分光光度计测量光谱透过率

由安光所自行设计的高精度分光光度计目的是高精度测量滤光片透过率。该系统特点是基于双光栅单色仪的全自动单光束测量仪器。在出射光路中引入了积分球,用来消除光束的偏振性和不均匀性,而且在信号接收部分提出了将滤光片和探测器作为整体考虑,优点是接近滤光片的实际使用环境,减少了其实际测量误差。着重叙述了该仪器的设计过程和不确定度分析。测量的不确定度源包括光源的稳定性,双单色仪重复性、再现性,光束的均匀性,内反射,探测器线性、稳定性、偏振性、均匀性,系统杂散光。经本仪器测量的滤光片透过率合成不确定度为5.859×10-3,完全满足测量精度要求。     

基于半导体纳米材料的偏振光发射:从材料到发光二极管（英文）

由于偏光片、彩色滤光片和液晶层等结构的损耗,基于背光源技术的液晶显示器的整体效率不足5%.自发射发光二极管(LED)不但具有巨大的市场潜力,而且能够满足未来显示的需求,迎来了巨大的发展机遇.更重要的是,由于避免了偏光片造成的光损失,偏振LED可以提高背景光利用效率.因此,亟需寻找有效的方法组装高质量的各向异性纳米材料薄膜,从而制备出具有高偏振度和高外量子效率的偏振LED.本文介绍了一些半导体纳米材料的光电特性及其在偏振LED中的潜在应用.综述了在偏振光发射领域从材料到薄膜,再到LED的研究进展;总结和比较了构建偏振光发射薄膜和LED的不同组装策略;最后,讨论了当前面临的挑战,并对偏振LED的潜在商业应用价值进行了展望.我们希望这篇综述能够对偏振LED当前研究进展进行有价值的总结,并对其未来发展激发一些新的、切实可行的想法.     

基于相关放大原理的光谱透过率测量方法研究

论述光谱透过率测量的原理,单通道检测方法及其检测相关技术的研究动态,介绍了国内外相关的最新研究成果.通过理论分析和测试技术的研究,提出一种基于相关放大原理的光谱透过率的测量方法,解决了传统光谱透过率测量系统中存在的『日]题.     

银纳米颗粒有序阵列光学偏振玻璃特性研究

银纳米椭球微粒有序掺杂的光学偏振玻璃具有光学玻璃的高透过率特性和本征的偏振特性,是综合性能好的光学偏振器件。利用米氏理论和电偶极子理论分析了光入射到椭球形银纳米微粒产生的消光特性和偏振机理;建立椭球形纳米微粒周期阵列分布的光学偏振玻璃模型,采用有限元数值算法模拟计算近红外光入射该模型后的偏振光输出特性。通过优化玻璃内部椭球微粒的几何参数,获得波长在700~1 100nm近红外全波段内的偏振玻璃的透过率达到80%以上,消光比达20dB以上;尤其当波长在740~840nm范围内,透过率高达90%以上,消光比达50dB以上。     

An optimal photon counting polarimeter

We present the experimental results for a method used to perform polarimetry on ensembles of single photons. Our setup is based on a measurement method known to be optimal for estimating the state of two-level systems. The setup has no moving parts and is sensitive to weak sources (emitting single photons) of light as it relies on photon counting, and has potential applications in both classical polarization measurements and quantum communication scenarios. In our implementation, we are able to reconstruct the Stokes parameters of pure polarization states with an average fidelity of 99.9%.     

Effect of the polarization on ocular wave aberration measurements

Measurement of the eye's wave aberrations has become fairly standard in recent years. However, most studies have not taken into account the possible influence of the polarization state of light on the wave aberration measurements. The birefringence properties of the eye's optical components, in particular corneal birefringence, can be expected to have an effect on the wave aberration estimates obtained under different states of polarization for the measurement light. In the work described, we used a psychophysical aberrometer (the spatially resolved refractometer) to measure the effect of changes in the polarization state of the illumination light on the eye's wave aberration estimates obtained in a single pass. We find, contrary to our initial expectation, that the polarization state of the measurement light has little influence on the measured wave aberration. For each subject, the differences in wave aberrations across polarization states were of the same order as the variability in aberrations across consecutive estimates of the wave front for the same polarization conditions.     

Detection of stratospheric sulfuric Acid aerosols with polarization lidar: theory, simulations, and observations

The derivation of backscatter ratio profiles from polarization lidar measurements is discussed. The method is based on differences in depolarization between molecular backscattering and backscattering from spherical aerosol particles. Simulations show that the polarization algorithms yield backscatter ratios with uncertainties comparable with those obtained by Klett's method, provided that the backscattering process is dominated by molecular scattering. The technique could be utilized for monitoring the stratospheric sulfuric acid aerosol layer during periods of background conditions. The polarization analysis method is discussed in light of simulation results and is applied to polarization lidar profiles observed during the ALBATROSS 1996 field measurement campaign.     

Real-time polarization state measurement based on a birefringent crystal wedge

Abstract

We present a method of single-shot polarization state measurement based on a birefringent crystal wedge. The phase delay and amplitude angle of detected light are encoded into two groups of fringes through the interference in a crystal wedge and further decoded by fringe position locations. This method has the merit of real-time measurement, a compact set-up and simple calibration. The principle, set-up, calibration and error analysis are presented in details. In the end, a single-shot measurement set-up with 80 kHz temporal resolution is demonstrated to investigate the molecule dynamic behaviour in a TN liquid crystal under a rectangular voltage.     

Exploration of the retinal nerve fiber layer thickness by measurement of the linear dichroism

An electro-optic device mounted on a slit lamp to assess the degree of polarization of a light beam that has double passed through the retina about the optic-nerve head in the living human eye is described. The asymmetric structure of the retinal nerve's fiber layer possesses a linear-form dichroism and will partially polarize an unpolarized light beam that is scattered at the fundus of the eye and has double passed the ocular media (cornea, lens, retina). This partial polarization is a function of the retinal nerve's fiber layer thickness, and its measurement may be used for exploring glaucoma and other retinal neuropathies. Experimental conditions allow us to neglect corneal dichroism. The first clinical measurements show a different degree of polarization between normal and glaucomatous eyes and a good correlation with the results obtained by optical coherence tomography.     

Alternative equations of magnetophotoelasticity and approximate solution of the inverse problem

In magnetophotoelasticity, photoelastic models are investigated in a magnetic field in order to initiate rotation of the plane of polarization that is due to the Faraday effect. The method has been used for the measurement of stress distributions that are in equilibrium on the wave normal and therefore cannot be measured with the traditional photoelastic technique. In this category belong bending stresses in plates and shells and residual stresses in glass plates. Two new systems of equations of magnetophotoelasticity are derived. One of them describes evolution of the polarization of light in a magnetophotoelastic medium in terms of eigenvectors, the other in terms of distinctive parameters. For the latter system, an approximate closed-form solution has been found. The integral Wertheim law has been generalized for the case of stress states in equilibrium when rotation of the plane of polarization is present.     

Retrieval of the scattering and microphysical properties of aerosols from ground-based optical measurements including polarization. I. Method

A method has been developed for retrieving the scattering and microphysical properties of atmospheric aerosol from measurements of solar transmission, aureole, and angular distribution of the scattered and polarized sky light in the solar principal plane. Numerical simulations of measurements have been used to investigate the feasibility of the method and to test the algorithm's performance. It is shown that the absorption and scattering properties of an aerosol, i.e., the single-scattering albedo, the phase function, and the polarization for single scattering of incident unpolarized light, can be obtained by use of radiative transfer calculations to correct the values of scattered radiance and polarized radiance for multiple scattering, Rayleigh scattering, and the influence of ground. The method requires only measurement of the aerosol's optical thickness and an estimate of the ground's reflectance and does not need any specific assumption about properties of the aerosol. The accuracy of the retrieved phase function and polarization of the aerosols is examined at near-infrared wavelengths (e.g., 0.870 mum). The aerosol's microphysical properties (size distribution and complex refractive index) are derived in a second step. The real part of the refractive index is a strong function of the polarization, whereas the imaginary part is strongly dependent on the sky's radiance and the retrieved single-scattering albedo. It is demonstrated that inclusion of polarization data yields the real part of the refractive index.     

Comparison of methods for reducing the effects of scattering in spectrophotometry

Light scattering provides a problem in optical spectroscopy as the relationship between attenuation and absorption in the presence of scattering is nonlinear. Three simple methods of reducing the effects of scattering and hence returning to an approximately linear relationship are considered in this paper, namely, extracting light that has maintained its original polarization state through subtraction of orthogonal polarization states, use of an added absorber, and spatial filtering. These can all be applied relatively easily to conventional spectrophotometers. However, there is an inevitable trade-off between the accuracy of the measurement and the signal-to-noise ratio as scattered light is rejected from the detector. It is demonstrated that polarization subtraction is the most efficient technique at selecting weakly scattered photons from a scattered light background as it enables the relationship between attenuation and absorption coefficient to become more linear while maintaining a higher number of detected photons. In practical use, the drawback of polarization subtraction over added absorber and spatial filtering methods is that a large dc background light level is maintained, which contributes to a higher shot noise. This means that when the scattering coefficient is high (micros > or = 7 mm(-1)) the added absorber method offers better performance for shot noise limited detection.     

Reduction of error in spectrophotometry of scattering media using polarization techniques

Scattering can result in erroneous determination of the concentrations of constituent absorbers in spectrophotometry. This is due to the relationship between attenuation and absorption coefficient becoming nonlinear; hence, the use of the Lambert-Beer law becomes invalid. It has previously been shown that application of polarization techniques can reduce these effects, resulting in a more linear relationship. Here we quantify the impact of this improvement on measurement of the ratio of concentrations for two general absorbing species and show that measurement using polarization-maintaining light is more accurate. This is performed using a generalized version of theory previously dependent on selection of isosbestic wavelengths. For the absorbing species and geometries considered here, the mean error on the estimation of absorber concentration ratio is 18.2% for the case of detection without polarization discrimination. When polarization-maintaining light is extracted, mean errors of 1.2% and 5.1% are achieved for linear and circular polarizations, respectively. The improvement provided by the polarization techniques is observed regardless of the illuminating wavelengths but is achieved at the expense of a reduced signal-to-noise ratio. Taking this into account, for the detection scheme considered with a detector well capacity of 4 x 10(5) electrons the improvement provided by linear polarization-maintaining light is reduced to a factor of 3.6 and for circular polarizations a factor of 2.2.