Polarization-resolved Stokes-Mueller imaging: a review of technology and applications

Spandana, K U; Mahato, Krishna Kishore; Mazumder, Nirmal

doi:10.1007/s10103-019-02752-1

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“…The traditional ellipsometry method based on the spectroscopic ellipsometer (SE) can only obtain two measurement parameters, namely, amplitude ratio and phase difference, which leads to the lack of information on some parameters of the sample [2]. In contrast, the Mueller matrix ellipsometer (MME) can achieve a single measurement to obtain all 16 elements of the Mueller matrix of the sample [3], to get more abundant sample information and make a more comprehensive interpretation of the optical properties and structure information of the sample [4], that has attracted much attention in recent years. The Laboratory of Interface and Thin Film Physics (CNRS-LPICM) of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has been working on the measurement of key dimensions and nesting errors of grating structures using Mueller matrix ellipsometry since 2005 [5].…”

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A polarization optical measurement method based on spectroscopic ellipsometer and COMSOL simulation

Fang¹,

Yang²,

Zhang³

et al. 2023

International Conference on Optoelectronic Materials and Devices (ICOMD 2022)

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The broad-spectrum Mueller matrix ellipsometry can achieve nanometer-scale film structure measurements in the range of visible spectrum by fitting the wide spectral polarization parameters and dispersion of samples. COMSOL can simulate optical processes in multiple physical fields. Therefore, the combination of COMSOL simulation and broad-spectrum ellipsometry is able to achieve high-precision measurement of thin film structures in multi-physical field. In this paper, firstly, the ellipsometry parameters of SiO2 film on silicon substrate are measured by a broad-spectrum ellipsometer. Secondly, the reflection process of SiO2 film on silicon substrate is simulated by COMSOL. Then, the Mueller matrices of the samples were calculated respectively, and the thickness of the SiO2 film was obtained by comparing the matching degree of the two Mueller matrices. Finally, the experimental and simulation results of Mueller matrices M12, M33 and M34 with different thickness of SiO2 film is analyzed and compared comprehensively. The results verify the feasibility of the measurement method combining Mueller matrix ellipsometry with COMSOL simulation, which can broaden the application of multi-physics field measurement of broad-spectrum ellipsometry.

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A polarization optical measurement method based on spectroscopic ellipsometer and COMSOL simulation

Fang¹,

Yang²,

Zhang³

et al. 2023

International Conference on Optoelectronic Materials and Devices (ICOMD 2022)

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“…Polarimetric imaging [1][2][3] has established as an emerging tool in medical diagnosis 4,5 were quantitative information extracted from the interaction of light with biological material can provide useful information of the sample without labeling. Stokes parameters for example allow to differentiate between healthy tissue and pre-cancerous one.…”

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Space-division multiplexing for snapshot polarimetric imaging of tissue samples

Fernández,

Demczylo

2023

Computational Imaging VII

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Interaction of light with biological material constitutes a powerful tool for example in medical diagnosis. For example, the degree of linear polarization (DoLP) allows to differentiate between healthy and cancerous tissue. Polarimetric imaging by means of space-division techniques has become recently popular due to advances in nanotechnology and commercial availability of microgrid polarizers integrated onto the sensing chip of a camera. In order to obtain the linear Stokes parameters from a sample in a single shot, we developed a microscopy setup incorporating a polarized sensor in the imaging plane. Besides, by means of illumination multiplexing with linear States of Polarization in the input, Mueller matrix elements can be retrieved in a single shot. Experimental results for measures of DoLP and AoP as well as Mueller matrix elements over tissue samples are presented.

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“…Polarization imaging technique is a promising noninvasive method to provide rich microstructural information about different types of the sample ( KU et al, 2019 ; Ramella-Roman et al, 2020 ), primarily used as biomedical imaging applications ( Xiao et al, 2019 ). It has been combined with microscopy ( He et al, 2019 ) and endoscopy to help achieve precision and noninvasive medical detection and treatment, and polarization parameters have been proposed to explain distinctive pathological structures ( Lu and Chipman, 1996 ; He et al, 2019 ) and help to detect human skin, esophageal, colorectal, and oral cancers and cervical carcinoma ( Sheng et al, 2019 ) among others.…”

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Effect of the Samples’ Surface With Complex Microscopic Geometry on 3 × 3 Mueller Matrix Measurement of Tissue Bulks

Liu

Sun

2022

Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol.

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The clinical in vivo tissue bulks’ surface is always coarse and shows a complex microscopic geometry which may affect the visual effect of polarization images and calculation of polarization parameters of the sample. To confirm whether this effect would cause identification difficulties and misjudgments on the target recognition when performed the polarization imaging based on 3 × 3 Mueller matrix measurement, cylindrical type and slope type physical models were used to study and analyze the effect of the surface with complex microscopic geometry on the polarization images. Then, clinical tumor bulk samples were used to interact with different sizes of patterns to simulate the different complex microscopic geometry and test the coarse surface effect on polarization images. Meanwhile, assessment parameters were defined to evaluate and confirm the variation between two polarization images quantitatively. The results showed that the polarization imaging of the sample surface with the complex microscopic geometry led to acceptable visual effect and limited quantitative variation on the value of polarization parameters and assessment parameters, and it caused no identification difficulties on target recognition, indicating that it is feasible to apply the polarization imaging based on 3 × 3 Mueller matrix measurement on clinical in vivo tissues with the complex microscopic geometry sample surface.

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Polarization-resolved Stokes-Mueller imaging: a review of technology and applications

Cited by 50 publications

References 48 publications

A polarization optical measurement method based on spectroscopic ellipsometer and COMSOL simulation

A polarization optical measurement method based on spectroscopic ellipsometer and COMSOL simulation

Space-division multiplexing for snapshot polarimetric imaging of tissue samples

Effect of the Samples’ Surface With Complex Microscopic Geometry on 3 × 3 Mueller Matrix Measurement of Tissue Bulks

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