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- A study with profound implications for exploitation of polarization in optical measurements
- Provides new quantitative means to establish precision limit and to model arbitrary fields
- Nominated as an outstanding contribution by Imperial College London
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Central to this thesis is the characterisation and exploitation of electromagnetic properties of light in imaging and measurement systems. To this end an information theoretic approach is used to formulate a hitherto lacking, quantitative definition of polarisation resolution, and to establish fundamental precision limits in electromagnetic systems. Furthermore rigorous modelling tools are developed for propagation of arbitrary electromagnetic fields, including for example stochastic fields exhibiting properties such as partial polarisation, through high numerical aperture optics. Finally these ideas are applied to the development, characterisation and optimisation of a number of topical optical systems: polarisation imaging; multiplexed optical data storage; and single molecule measurements. The work has implications for all optical imaging systems where polarisation of light is of concern.
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Book Title: Informational Limits in Optical Polarimetry and Vectorial Imaging
Authors: Matthew R. Foreman
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28528-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-28527-1Published: 24 March 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43568-3Published: 17 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-28528-8Published: 23 March 2012
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 232
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation, Classical Electrodynamics
Keywords
- Eigenfunctions of Debye-Wolf Diffraction Integral
- Focusing Partially Polarised and Coherent Beams
- High Numerical Aperture Optical Imaging
- Multiplexed Optical Data Storage
- Noise Analysis in Polarimetry
- Optimization in Polarimetry
- Polarisation Resolution and Information
- Single Molecule Orientation and Photon Statistics