Informational Limits in Optical Polarimetry and Vectorial Imaging

• Main Author: Foreman, Matthew R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; Numerical and Computational Physics.; Optics and Electrodynamics.

Central to this thesis is the characterisation and exploitation of electromagnetic properties of light in imaging and measurement systems. To this end an information theoretic approach is used to formulate a hitherto lacking, quantitative definition of polarisation resolution, and to establish funda...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Fundamentals of probability theory
• Information and estimation theory
• Vectorial optics
• Information in polarimetry
• Information in polarisation imaging
• Multiplexed Optical Data Storage (MODS)
• Single molecule studies
• Conclusions
• Appendices.