3D Stokes polarimetric imaging at nanoscales
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| author | Herrera, Isael Alonso, Miguel A. Brasselet, Sophie |
| author_facet | Herrera, Isael Alonso, Miguel A. Brasselet, Sophie |
| contents | Optical fields polarized along three dimensions are frequent in optical microscopy and nanophotonics, and yet retrieving their polarization distribution is challenging. We present the experimental implementation of three-dimensional (3D) Stokes polarimetric imaging of nonparaxial optical fields with nanoscale spatial resolution. This approach extends classical Stokes polarimetry (traditionally limited to paraxial fields) into the nonparaxial regime. We use an array of gold nanospheres, each acting as a localized electric dipolar scatterer, to probe 3D polarization states over a field of view of tens of micrometers. The scattered signal is collected by a high numerical aperture objective lens and separated into its circular polarization components, providing a very simple imaging system. We introduce a computational algorithm to efficiently extract the physical parameters from the generated dipole spread functions with a high throughput across the whole field of view. Finally, we show that this method can also be applied to single-molecule localization and orientation fluorescence microscopy. |
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| spellingShingle | 3D Stokes polarimetric imaging at nanoscales Herrera, Isael Alonso, Miguel A. Brasselet, Sophie Optics Optical fields polarized along three dimensions are frequent in optical microscopy and nanophotonics, and yet retrieving their polarization distribution is challenging. We present the experimental implementation of three-dimensional (3D) Stokes polarimetric imaging of nonparaxial optical fields with nanoscale spatial resolution. This approach extends classical Stokes polarimetry (traditionally limited to paraxial fields) into the nonparaxial regime. We use an array of gold nanospheres, each acting as a localized electric dipolar scatterer, to probe 3D polarization states over a field of view of tens of micrometers. The scattered signal is collected by a high numerical aperture objective lens and separated into its circular polarization components, providing a very simple imaging system. We introduce a computational algorithm to efficiently extract the physical parameters from the generated dipole spread functions with a high throughput across the whole field of view. Finally, we show that this method can also be applied to single-molecule localization and orientation fluorescence microscopy. |
| title | 3D Stokes polarimetric imaging at nanoscales |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11222 |