IPP and PRT Depolarizing Spaces for the Study of Depolarizing Samples: A Review
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Abstract
Depolarizing spaces can reveal and emphasize depolarization origins in samples, making them suitable tools for target detection and disease diagnosis. The Indices of Polarization Purity (IPP) space, considered a representative depolarizing space, highlights the depolarization characteristics of samples, and has demonstrated its superiority in analyzing and identifying depolarization samples, i.e., biological tissues and scattering environments. Recently, a new polarization representation, the so-called Polarizance–Reflection–Transformation (PRT) space has been proposed, which has been employed to distinguish between non-depolarization systems, as well as analyze anisotropic depolarizers. Importantly, the IPP and PRT spaces provide complementary information of samples, hence presenting more polarimetric characterizations of the samples of interest. In consideration of the high importance of the IPP and PRT spaces in this topic, in this paper, we review the methodology of these two spaces and their applications in depolarizer distinction.
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OpenAlex topics: Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry · Characterization and Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles · Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
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School of Energy Science and Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454150, China
School of Physics and Electronic Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454150, China
Grup d’Òptica, Departament de Física, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Avda. Universidad s/n, 03202 Elche, Spain
Departamento de Ciencia de Materiales, Óptica y Tecnología Electrónica, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Avda. Universidad s/n, 03202 Elche, Spain
School of Computer and information, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
Funding
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and Fondos FEDER · Generalitat de Catalunya · Generalitat Valenciana
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