Open AccessPolarization holographic microscopy for extracting spatio-temporally resolved Jones matrix
Author(s) -
Young-Chan Kim,
Joonwoo Jeong,
Jaeduck Jang,
Mahn Won Kim,
YongKeun Park
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.20.009948
Subject(s) - optics , holography , polarization (electrochemistry) , holographic interferometry , digital holographic microscopy , microscopy , anisotropy , interferometry , materials science , physics , chemistry
We present a high-speed holographic microscopic technique for quantitative measurement of polarization light-field, referred to as polarization holographic microscopy (PHM). Employing the principle of common-path interferometry, PHM quantitatively measures the spatially resolved Jones matrix components of anisotropic samples with only two consecutive measurements of spatially modulated holograms. We demonstrate the features of PHM with imaging the dynamics of liquid crystal droplets at a video-rate.