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Speckle-based determination of the polarisation state of single and multiple laser beams

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Date
15/05/2020
Author
Facchin, Morgan
Bruce, Graham David
Dholakia, Kishan
Keywords
Speckle
Polarisation
Stokes parameters
QC Physics
T Technology
DAS
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Abstract
Laser speckle is generated by the multiple interference of light through a disordered medium. Here we study the premise that the speckle pattern retains information about the polarisation state of the incident field. We analytically verify that a linear relation exists between the Stokes vector of the light and the resulting speckle pattern. As a result, the polarisation state of a beam can be measured from the speckle pattern using a transmission matrix approach. We perform a quantitative analysis of the accuracy of the transmission matrix method to measure randomly time-varying polarisation states. In experiment, we find that the Stokes parameters of light from a diode laser can be retrieved with an uncertainty of 0.05 using speckle images of 150$\times$150 pixels and 17 training states. We show both analytically and in experiment that this approach may be extended to the case of more than one laser field, demonstrating the measurement of the Stokes parameters of two laser beams simultaneously from a single speckle pattern and achieving the same uncertainty of 0.05.
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Facchin , M , Bruce , G D & Dholakia , K 2020 , ' Speckle-based determination of the polarisation state of single and multiple laser beams ' , OSA Continuum , vol. 3 , no. 5 , pp. 1302-1313 . https://doi.org/10.1364/OSAC.394117
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OSA Continuum
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1364/OSAC.394117
ISSN
2578-7519
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2020 the Author(s). Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.
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Funding: Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2017-197); UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P030017/1).
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URL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14408
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19920

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