Optimization of the contrast in active Stokes images

François Goudail (1)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Scop

Active Stokes imaging consists in illuminating a scene with polarized light and in measuring the Stokes vector of the scattered light. We present a method for determining the polarization state of illumination that maximizes the observed contrast between a target and the background when the scene is partially depolarizing and in the presence of additive Gaussian detection noise.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

François Goudail. Optimization of the contrast in active Stokes images. Optics Letters, 2009, 34 (2), pp.121-124. ⟨hal-00746770⟩