| Abstract: | 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
.
B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 68 Skorina Ave., Minsk., 220072, Belarus, e-mail:
tsaruk@dragon.bas-net.by. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 66, No. 6, pp. 869–874, November–December,
1999. |
