Vol. 45, Issue 1, pp. 101-112

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Vol. 45 Issue 1 pp. 101-112

SO(3) matrix transformation for rapid polarization search and coding in a three-plate polarizer

Chunhui Huang, Xuejin Wang

Keywords

SO(3) transformer, tabu search, polarization coding

Abstract

A SO(3) transformer of a three-plate polarizer is adopted to rapidly achieve the transformation of the polarized state. The polarization coding based on Stokes components S2 and S3 is analyzed and demonstrated. Tabu search algorithm is used to accelerate the transformation of the polarized state by utilizing Mueller matrix roots decomposition to decompose the SO(3) matrix, and substituting first order Taylor series approximations for the trigonometric functions in the SO(3) matrix. The results show that bias voltage is less than 120 V in the coding zone. The search speed of our algorithm is faster than the one without first order Taylor series approximations by 4 times.

Vol. 45
Issue 1
pp. 101-112

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