Abstract
The analysis of vibrational bands is a core application of infrared (IR) spectroscopy. Polarization-dependent measurements enable the study of anisotropic materials. However, imperfect IR polarizers exhibit polarizer leakage, which causes pronounced bandshape and baseline distortions for samples with weak optical anisotropy. Based on the 4 × 4 Mueller-matrix formalism, we propose a polarimetric measurement scheme for handling imperfect polarizers and source prepolarization that delivers correct co- and crosspolarized transmission and reflection IR spectra. The scheme is applied to a weakly anisotropic polypropylene sheet, resolving crosspolarized signatures as small as 5⋅10−5. We determine the polymer’s direction-dependent complex refractive index in the vibrational fingerprint range.
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