Open AccessOptimal Mueller matrix estimation in the presence of Poisson shot noise
Author(s) -
Guillaume Anna,
François Goudail
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.20.021331
Subject(s) - shot noise , mueller calculus , optics , gaussian noise , noise (video) , polarimeter , physics , polarimetry , computer science , algorithm , scattering , artificial intelligence , detector , image (mathematics)
We address the optimization of Mueller polarimeters in the presence of additive Gaussian noise and signal-dependent shot noise, which are two dominant types of noise in most imaging systems. We propose polarimeter architectures in which the noise variances on each coefficient of the Mueller matrix are equalized and independent of the observed matrices.