Laser goniophotometric stokes polarimeter

An automated Stokes polarimeter of the dynamic type is created to measure the polarization characteristics of radiation emitted, reflected, and scattered by objects at different angles to a surface. An analysis of the versions of processing of measurement resuls has shown that the dependence of a random error in determination of the parameters on the number of positions N of a quarter-wave plate, at which the radiation intensity is measured, is of a similar nature as the dependence on the number of independent measurements of the same quantity $$( \sim 1/\sqrt N )$$ .