Development of a pulse laser source-operated achromatic dual-rotating-retarder polarimeter designed for hyper-Rayleigh scattering measurements

Paul Lemaillet; Sylvain Rivet; Fabrice Pellen; Bernard Le Jeune; Jack Cariou

doi:10.1117/12.731315

13 September 2007 Development of a pulse laser source-operated achromatic dual-rotating-retarder polarimeter designed for hyper-Rayleigh scattering measurements

Paul Lemaillet, Sylvain Rivet, Fabrice Pellen, Bernard Le Jeune, Jack Cariou

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Proceedings Volume 6682, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing III; 66820T (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.731315
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Hyper Rayleigh scattering is frequently used to determine the 6 rotational invariants of the first hyperpolarizability tensor. It requires numerous polarization-states of both incident- and scattered-light and thus justifies the use of a dual-rotating-retarder polarimeter. Optimization of our experimental setup by reducing the condition number of the polarization processing matrix allowed us to get optimal detector angle and retarder angular steps for two experimental configurations. Next, we calibrated our experimental setup by using a quartz plate sample in a two steps procedure: at first the first retarder then second one. The retardance and ellipticity angle of both retarders were estimated by minimizing a chi-square function. We estimated the standard deviation of each parameter from noise spreading and performed this calibration procedure for two experimental case-studies, i.e. two angular positions of the quartz sample.

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Paul Lemaillet, Sylvain Rivet, Fabrice Pellen, Bernard Le Jeune, and Jack Cariou "Development of a pulse laser source-operated achromatic dual-rotating-retarder polarimeter designed for hyper-Rayleigh scattering measurements", Proc. SPIE 6682, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing III, 66820T (13 September 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.731315

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