Mueller matrix imaging polarimeter at the wavelength of 265 nm

Yuanhe Li, Yanqiu Li*, Ke Liu, Guodong Zhou, Lihui Liu, Aijun Liu, Ziyu Ma

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Abstract

Mueller matrix imaging polarimeters (MMIPs) have been developed in the wavelength region of >400 nm with great potential in many fields yet leaving a void of instrumentation and application in the ultraviolet (UV) region. For the first time to our knowledge, an UV-MMIP is developed for high resolution, sensitivity, and accuracy at the wavelength of 265 nm. A modified polarization state analyzer is designed and applied to suppress stray light for nice polarization images, and the errors of the measured Mueller matrices are calibrated to lower than 0.007 in pixel level. The finer performance of the UV-MMIP is demonstrated by the measurements of unstained cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) specimens. The contrasts of depolarization images obtained by the UV-MMIP are dramatically improved over those obtained by our previous VIS-MMIP at the wavelength of 650 nm. A distinct evolution of depolarization in normal cervical epithelium tissue, CIN-I, CIN-II, and CIN-III specimens can be observed by the UV-MMIP with mean depolarization promotion by up to 20 times. This evolution could provide important evidence for CIN staging but can hardly be distinguished by the VIS-MMIP. The results prove that the UV-MMIP could be an effective tool in polarimetric applications with higher sensitivity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2945-2951
Number of pages7
JournalApplied Optics
Volume62
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Apr 2023

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