Polarization-sensitive optical diffraction tomography

Polarization of light has been widely used as a contrast mechanism in two-dimensional (2D) microscopy and also some three-dimensional (3D) imaging modalities. In this paper, we report the 3D tomographic reconstruction refractive index (RI) tensor using 2D scattered fields measured for different illumination angles polarizations. Conventional optical diffraction tomography (ODT) quantitative, label-free method. It is based on scalar formalism, which limits its application to isotropic samples. We achieve birefringence objects through reformulation ODT vector theory. The off-diagonal components RI convey additional information that not available either conventional or polarization microscopy. Finally, show experimental reconstructions with polarization-sensitive metric quantitatively displaying true