Mueller matrix imaging microscope using dual continuously rotating anisotropic mirrors

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Date
2021
Volume
29
Issue
18
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Optics express : the international electronic journal of optics
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Washington, DC : Soc.
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We demonstrate calibration and operation of a Mueller matrix imaging microscope using dual continuously rotating anisotropic mirrors for polarization state generation and analysis. The mirrors contain highly spatially coherent nanostructure slanted columnar titanium thin films deposited onto optically thick titanium layers on quartz substrates. The first mirror acts as polarization state image generator and the second mirror acts as polarization state image detector. The instrument is calibrated using samples consisting of laterally homogeneous properties such as straight-through-air, a clear aperture linear polarizer, and a clear aperture linear retarder waveplate. Mueller matrix images are determined for spatially varying anisotropic samples consisting of a commercially available (Thorlabs) birefringent resolution target and a spatially patterned titanium slanted columnar thin film deposited onto a glass substrate. Calibration and operation are demonstrated at a single wavelength (530 nm) only, while, in principle, the instrument can operate regardless of wavelength. We refer to this imaging ellipsometry configuration as rotating-anisotropic-mirror-sample-rotating-anisotropic-mirror ellipsometry (RAM-S-RAM-E).

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Ruder, A., Wright, B., Feder, R., Kilic, U., Hilfiker, M., Schubert, E., et al. (2021). Mueller matrix imaging microscope using dual continuously rotating anisotropic mirrors (Washington, DC : Soc.). Washington, DC : Soc. https://doi.org//10.1364/OE.435972
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