Abstract

In our laboratory we built a Stokes polarimeter using two photoelastic modulators (PEMs). We applied two different signal processing methods to this dual PEM Stokes polarimeter. In one method, we used lock-in amplifiers to measure the PEM modulated signals. In the other method, we used Fourier analysis of a digitized waveform that contains the modulated signals. The dual PEM Stokes polarimeter can measure all normalized Stokes parameters. In this paper we present and compare results obtained using both signal processing methods. We discuss how each method benefits selected applications of the dual PEM Stokes polarimeter.

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