Full Stokes polarimetry based on the polarization-holographic diffraction element of an optimal configuration

Abstract

The new polarization-holographic element of an optimal configuration is developed for the real-time complete analysis of the polarization state of light (for determining all Stokes parameters). The simultaneous measurement of the intensities in all points of images in diffracted orders using CCD camera and appropriate software allows to determine the spatial distribution of a polarization state in the images of objects, and also the dispersion of this distribution.