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Here I share some historical papers/documents/books about polarization optics that are very hard to find and that I consider important or very nice. Soleillet Thesis (1929) [First description of Stokes-Mueller calculus] https://www.mmpolarimetry.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SoleilletThesis.pdf Perrin 1942 (English translation) [First work describing Mueller matrix symmetries] https://www.mmpolarimetry.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/perrin1942.pdf Mueller 1943 (Memorandum on the polarization optics of the photoelastic shutter] [The…

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Many months without updates. So this is a summary of the latest news (without following any particular order) New Book Chapter Arteaga, O., Ossikovski, R. (2023). Mueller Matrix Analysis, Decompositions, and Novel Quantitative Approaches to Processing Complex Polarimetric Data. In: Ramella-Roman, J.C., Novikova, T. (eds) Polarized Light in Biomedical Imaging and Sensing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04741-1_2…

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I share here the slides of the keynote presentation I prepared for the 9th International Conference on Spectroscopic Ellipsometry ICSE-9. Title: Exploring the sensitivity limits of a Mueller matrix ellipsometer. The spatial dispersion of Si

I have been appointed as Topical Editor in Applied Optics in the areas of Polarization, Polarimetry, Ellipsometry, and Polarimetric Imaging. Applied Optics, from Optica Publishing Group (formerly Optical Society of America), is my top preferred journal for applications-centered research in optics, and I have published there many articles. I hope I will receive many interesting…

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The purpose of this post is to provide some interesting documents related to the history of ellipsometry. It is sometimes considered that Paul Drude was the “inventor” of ellipsometry. Despite the many contributions of P. Drude, in my opinion this statement is not true and, as almost all aspects and techniques related with the polarization…

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I am looking for PhD cantidates to be funded by the 2022 FI scholarship program from Catalan research Agency. Students with a good academic record interested in developing a PhD in Physical Optics with a focus on the polarization of light can contact me, More info: In Catalan In English Applications opened only until October…

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We are curently working on an upgraded Mueller matrix microscope allowing for fast MM imaging. Stay tuned for more information about it! Animation of growing Nickel sulphate crystals by Europhotonics Master Student Dale Gottlieb

This ellipsometer was build in our Lab during 2019 and 2020 in joint work with visiting student Subiao Bian (Huaqiao University, China). Has several features: compensation using Fresnel Rhombs and discrete angle positioning that makes it an interesting device. The manuscript has been selected for an Editor’s Pick in Applied Optics. https://www.osapublishing.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-60-16-4964

I have recently published a new paper in J. Mod. Opt. about something I discovered when reading Fresnel’s Oeuvres Complètes and that relates to the geometric phase! https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2021.1898687

I am sharing here the slides of a presentation I did for the course Séminaires en sciences physiques, from Université de Moncton, in Quebec, Canada. Phase and polarization are the two main actors of this presentation. The ‘phase’ describes the cyclic change of electric and magnetic fields during one period of the wave, while the…

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