Open AccessPolarimetric image recovery in turbid media employing circularly polarized light
Author(s) -
Haofeng Hu,
Lin Zhao,
Xiaobo Li,
Hui Wang,
Jingyu Yang,
Kun Li,
Tiegen Liu
Publication year - 2018
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.26.025047
Subject(s) - circular polarization , optics , polarization (electrochemistry) , polarimetry , physics , linear polarization , elliptical polarization , scattering , laser , chemistry , microstrip
Circular polarization memory is a well-known phenomenon indicating that the circular polarization light can persist better its polarization property during propagating through turbid media compared with the linear polarization light. Therefore, in principle, using circularly polarized light can probably improve the quality of image recovery in dense turbid media than using the linearly polarized light. In this paper, we propose a new polarimetric image recovery method in dense turbid media with the illumination light of circular polarization, and we realize the image recovery combining the circular polarization information and linearly polarization information. The real-world experiment results demonstrate that the proposed method is more effective than previous methods, including the traditional polarimetric image recovery method by Schechner's [Appl. Opt.42, 511 (2003)] based on linear polarization.