Quadrature polarimetry for plasma Faraday rotation measurements
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 66 (1) , 383-385
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1146354
Abstract
A quadrature polarimeter for measurement of plasma magnetic field and electron densities is described. The polarization ellipse tilt angle is encoded as a relative phase shift between orthogonally polarized beams. This phase can be recovered using standard quadrature interferometric methods. The results from a benchtop experiment are presented.Keywords
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