Abstract

Measuring the depolarization properties of materials is a powerful sensing tool for numerous applications. Some of them require tins measurement to be operable in a remote way through optical waveguides (biomedical imaging [1]. non destructive diagnosis [2]. etc.). However, this issue is still an unsolved techno logical challenge since propagation through an optical fiber does not allow a perfect control of the polarization states. Such control is very stringent in most existing polarnnetric sensing modalities, such as Mueller imaging requiring 16 measures [1.3].

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