A video-polarimeter for metrology, field inspection and telescopic observations

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Circular Polarization, Linear Polarization, Polarimeters, Polarized Light, Telescopes, Video Equipment, Charge Coupled Devices, Lunar Surface, Mars Surface, Solar Physics

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In videopolarimetry, which allows the imaging of an astronomical field on the sole basis of the light with which it is polarized, a polarization selector isolates the six Stokes parameters at will. A CCD detector array inputs images to both a video system and a memory, so that an interactive image processor can compute combinations of these images to furnish a final version of the scene in (1) degree of circular polarization, (2) degree of linear polarization, and (3) azimuth of linear polarization. A laboratory bidimensional polarization application is presented. The apparatus, which produces polarization images of planetary surfaces, can when adapted to a monochromatic solar telescope allow the analysis of photospheric active centers to produce magnetic, velocity, and temperature gradient images.

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