Omron Corporation

Hokkaido University

Tomohiro Mizuno

Atsushi Taniguchi

Hiroshi Okabe

Kazuhiko Oka

To effectively reduce a measurement error in a parameter indicating two-dimensional spatial distribution of a state of polarization generated by variations in retardation of a birefringent prism pair due to a temperature change or other factors, while holding a variety of properties of an imaging polarimetry using the birefringent prism pair. By noting that reference phase functions &#x3c6;(x, y) and &#x3c6;(x, y) are obtained by solving an equation from each vibration component contained in an intensity distribution I(x, y), the reference phase functions &#x3c6;(x, y) and &#x3c6;(x, y) are calibrated concurrently with measurement of two-dimensional spatial distribution S(x, y), S(x, y), S(x, y), and S(x, y) of Stokes parameters.

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Sapporo, Japan

Tomohiro Mizuno