Ophthalmic applications of circular polarizers.

Fundus and Optic Disc Photography

l'rircuiar polarizers have been used v for difrerent ophthalmic applications, such as ophthalmoscopy,' lens photography,' and corneai endothelial microscopy.3 To the best of our knowledge, circular polarizers have not been applied to fundus photography. A linear polarizer polarizes light in a plane. In fundus photography, it has been used to show the birefringence of the nerve fiber layero and ...

Optimizing interferometer experiments for CMB B mode measurement

The sensitivity of interferometers with linear polarizers to the CMB E and B mode are variant under the rotation of the polarizer frame, while interferometer with circular polarizers are equally sensitive to E and B mode. We present analytically and numerically that the diagonal elements of window functions for CMB E/B power spectra are maximized in interferometric measurement of linear polariz...

Simulation and Fabrication of 3d Spiral Photonic Crystals as Circular Polarizers

Broadband circular polarizer using stacked chiral polymer films.

A scattering-free broadband (approximately 120 nm bandwidth) circular polarizer is demonstrated by stacking three chiral polymer films with different pitch lengths. Using 4 x 4 matrix method, we have theoretically simulated the transmission spectra of each chiral polymer film and the three stacked films. Simulation results agree well with experiment. A broadband circular polarizer with bandwidt...

Thermopile detector of light ellipticity

Polarimetric imaging is widely used in applications from material analysis to biomedical diagnostics, vision and astronomy. The degree of circular polarization, or light ellipticity, is associated with the S3 Stokes parameter which is defined as the difference in the intensities of the left- and right-circularly polarized components of light. Traditional way of determining this parameter relies...