title: Ultrafast holographic Stokesmeter for polarization imaging in real time.
abstract: We propose an ultrafast holographic Stokesmeter using a volume holographic substrate with two sets of two orthogonal gratings to identify all four Stokes parameters of the input beam. We derive the Mueller matrix of the proposed architecture and determine the constraints necessary for reconstructing the complete Stokes vector. The speed of this device is determined primarily by the channel spectral bandwidth (typically 100 GHz), corresponding to a few picoseconds.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Shahriar
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Renu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tripathi
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kleinschmit
authors.forename: Tsu-Wei
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Nee
authors.forename: Soe-Mie F
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Nee