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Main Authors: Spiecker, David E., Brown, Thomas G.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25119
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author Spiecker, David E.
Brown, Thomas G.
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Brown, Thomas G.
contents We present an experimental test of the use of stress engineered optics incorporated into a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor in such a way that the shape of the point spread function (PSF) provides polarization information while the displacement of the PSF gives information about the local wavefront gradient, allowing a reconstruction of the wavefront gradient. Using calibrated polarizations and wavefront tilts we construct a measurement matrix capable of reconstructing both the Stokes parameters and the wavefront, yielding a measurement of wavefront gradients as small as 100 $μ$rad with a polarimetric angular error of approximately 0.1 radians on the Poincaré sphere in a single frame measurement.
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spellingShingle Single-shot, simultaneous spatially resolved polarimetry and wavefront sensing with stress engineered optics
Spiecker, David E.
Brown, Thomas G.
Instrumentation and Detectors
Optics
We present an experimental test of the use of stress engineered optics incorporated into a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor in such a way that the shape of the point spread function (PSF) provides polarization information while the displacement of the PSF gives information about the local wavefront gradient, allowing a reconstruction of the wavefront gradient. Using calibrated polarizations and wavefront tilts we construct a measurement matrix capable of reconstructing both the Stokes parameters and the wavefront, yielding a measurement of wavefront gradients as small as 100 $μ$rad with a polarimetric angular error of approximately 0.1 radians on the Poincaré sphere in a single frame measurement.
title Single-shot, simultaneous spatially resolved polarimetry and wavefront sensing with stress engineered optics
topic Instrumentation and Detectors
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25119