Comparison and analysis on Polarization aberration in Pehan prisms and the Telescope system including Pehan prisms

Abstract In this paper, using Free coordinate system and the Jones vector to analyse the discipline of polarization state when the light penetrates the confocal system, so obtains the distribution of the polarization state when a line polarized light penetrates the confocal system. Using the method of tracing ray obtains the distribution of the polarization state on the image surface when light penetrates the Pehan prisms system and the Telescope system with Pehan prisms-There are both elliptical polarized lights when light passes two roof planes of the Pehan prisms system and the telescope system with Pehan prisms respectively, of which the difference value between the azimuth angle and ellipticity angle is betweet ± 1° on the supposition from the same roof planes. Do the experiment analysis using Stokes parameter measurement, then gets consistent result with theory. At last, clears the Polarization aberration effect of Telescope system with Pehan prisms results from the Pehan prisms.