Computed-tomography imaging spectropolarimeter

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Oct 1999

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Thesis (PhD). THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Source DAI-B 60/04, p. 1682, Oct 1999, 187 pages.

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Optics

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Ctisp, Focal Plane Array, Polarimetry, Stokes Vectors

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A complete Stokes imaging spectropolarimeter has been developed based on the principles of computed-tomography, spectrometry and polarimetry. The Computed-Tomography Imaging SpectroPolarimeter (CTISP) is a polarization extension to the Computed Tomography Imaging Spectrometer (CTIS)1. Imaging spectrometers estimate the object cube (x,y, λ), whose smallest subdivision is a voxel, while Stokes imaging spectrometers estimate four Stokes object cubes (x,y, Sp(λ) p = 0,1,2,3), one for each Stokes parameter. CTISP uses a two-dimensional disperser to diffract the image in the field stop into a 5-by-5 array of diffraction orders. As in computed tomography, each focal plane array (FPA) pixel effectively integrates a different path through the object cube, and when all pixels are recorded, a significant portion of the object cube's information is obtained. The frequency space representation of the object cube, however, indicates that two conical regions of information are not recorded, thereby limiting the reconstruction accuracy. CTISP scans only in the polarization domain (not spectral or spatial domains), acquiring four FPA frames, one behind each of the four polarization analyzers. Currently, CTISP's resolution is 33 by 33 spatially over a 3.5 degrees full angle field of view with 16 spectral bands of 20nm width covering 440nm-740nm. CTISP acquisition is modeled using the linear imaging equation ga=Ha fa+x a , which is inverted using the iterative expectation-maximization algorithm to solve for fa , the object cube as seen through analyzer a . The recorded diffraction images ga and the empirically determined calibration matrices Ha , are each acquired using analyzer a . The nth voxel reconstruction result is extracted from each of the four fa vectors to form a four element vector f-> n which is then multiplied by the inverse of the voxel characteristic matrix Wn to obtain the estimate of the Stokes vector Sn . Wn is derived from the four Ha matrices. 1M. R. Descour, E. L. Dereniak, ``Computed-tomography imaging spectrometer: experimental calibration and reconstruction results'', Applied Optics, 34, No 22, pp. 4817-4828 (August 1995).

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