Development of a space spectropolarimeter for full stokes parameters retrieval

Bogdan Vasilescu; Yaël Nazé; Grégor Rauw; Christian Kintziger; Jérôme Loicq

doi:10.1117/12.2599427

Development of a space spectropolarimeter for full stokes parameters retrieval

Bogdan Vasilescu^*, Yaël Nazé, Grégor Rauw, Christian Kintziger, Jérôme Loicq

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This paper presents the firsts steps of the development of a new spectropolarimeter with a high potential for space applications. The instrument, designed on birefringent elements, avoids the need for rotating elements and may cover the entire Stokes vector on a large wavelength band. In addition, the architecture of the modulator enables a very high polarimetric efficiency, placing this concept above classical spectropolarimeters. A new proof for the solution uniqueness is presented, and base on that, a thorough analysis of the polarimetric efficiency.

Original language	English
Article number	118522J
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	11852
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2599427
Publication status	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes
Event	2020 International Conference on Space Optics, ICSO 2020 - Virtual, Online Duration: 30 Mar 2021 → 2 Apr 2021

Keywords

Birefringence
Polarimetric modulation
Polarimetry
Space optics
Spectropolarimetry

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