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Instrument for measuring optical rotation
A polarimeter is a scientific instrument used to measure optical rotation: the angle of rotation caused by passing linearly polarized light through an optically active substance. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: PolarimeterA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Wafer-Scale Patterning Integration of Chiral 3D Perovskite Single Crystals toward High-Performance Full-Stokes PolarimeterInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Dual wavelength fiber-optic polarimeter for path-integrated strain sensing: application to the measurement of local slope on a flexible beamThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE): a nulling polarimeter for cosmic microwave background observationsCited 594 times
- Go sideways: Specific rotationA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Optical rotationA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarized light as it passes through a sample of an optically active compound.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE): a nulling polarimeter for cosmic microwave background observations
The Horizontal Magnetic Flux of the Quiet‐Sun Internetwork as Observed with theHinodeSpectro‐Polarimeter
Mueller matrix dual-rotating retarder polarimeter
An efficient photoelectric X-ray polarimeter for the study of black holes and neutron stars
Optimization of retardance for a complete Stokes polarimeter
Comparison of the GDx VCC Scanning Laser Polarimeter, HRT II ConfocalScanning Laser Ophthalmoscope, and Stratus OCT Optical Coherence Tomographfor the Detection of Glaucoma
Optimized Mueller polarimeter with liquid crystals
Ultracompact metasurface in-line polarimeter
🆕 Influential since 2022
Wafer-Scale Patterning Integration of Chiral 3D Perovskite Single Crystals toward High-Performance Full-Stokes Polarimeter
The Visible Spectro-Polarimeter of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope
An on-chip full-Stokes polarimeter based on optoelectronic polarization eigenvectors
Bicep/Keck XV: The Bicep3 Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter and the First Three-year Data Set
An All-Dielectric Metasurface Polarimeter
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Dual wavelength fiber-optic polarimeter for path-integrated strain sensing: application to the measurement of local slope on a flexible beamRoderick David Turner · 1990
- 📕Radar scene generation for tactical decision aidsJin Au Kong · 1986
- 📕Development of a high energy X-ray polarimeter for small satellites · 1997
- 📕Polarization errors associated with birefingent waveplatesEdward A. West · 1995
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