Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics. 2012. V. 15, N 3. P. 252-260.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/spqeo15.03.252

Fourier-Stokes polarimetry of fields corresponding to linearly and circularly polarized birefringent protein networks
A.O. Karachevtsev

Chernivtsi National University named after Yuri Fed’kovych, Department for Optics and Spectroscopy,
2 Kotsyubyns’kogo str., 58001 Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Phone: +38067 783 0572

Abstract. Considered in this work are the possibilities to use the method of Fourier-Stokes polarimetry for diagnostics of optical anisotropy inherent to polycrystalline networks of biological layers. The authors have offered a generalized model for optical anisotropy of histological sections taken from biological tissues and films of biological liquids. Polarization maps for Fourier spectra of laser images describing the phase-inhomogeneous objects have been investigated. Grounded was application of the method for consistent spatial-frequency filtration of polarization maps formed by linear and circular birefringent of biological crystals.

Keywords: polarization, Jones matrix, optical anisotropy, biological layer, polarization map, Fourier spectrum, spatial-frequency filtration.

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