Rotosim: Single-Pixel Simulation of Rotating Polarizer qPLM

In TobinH/microTransit: Quantitative Polarized Light Imaging and Analysis Tools

Single-Pixel Simulation of Rotating Polarizer qPLM

Description

Rotosim uses Jones calculus to simulate the interactions of a right circular polarizer, a birefringent specimen, and a rotating analyzer in sequence, modeling the setup of a Glazer et al. (1996) method qPLM scope.

Usage

Rotosim(steps = 6, sample)

Arguments

steps	Integer; the number of analyzer positions to use. Default is six.
sample	a Jones matrix representation of a birefringent sample. Can be made using jonesRet.

Value

A list containing (1) |sin d|, a measure of retardance (varies with out-of-plane angle), (2-3) phi, the in-plane orientation of the specimen slow axis, and (4) Io, the transmissivity of the specimen.

References

Glazer, A.M., Lewis, J.G., and Kaminsky, W., 1996. An automatic optical imaging system for birefringent media. Proc R Soc A 452(1955): 2751 - 2765.

See Also

Other qPLM Simulation Functions: jonesPol(), jonesRet()

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