Polarimetry has a long and successful history in various forms of clear media. Driven by their
biomedical potential, the use of the polarimetric approaches for biological tissue assessment …

Imaging in scattering media has been a challenging and important subject in optical
science. In scattering media, the image quality is often severely degraded by the scattering …

Control of solar transmission through windows promises to reduce building energy
consumption. However, the ability of current chromogenic technologies to regulate solar …

This tutorial-review introduces the fundamentals of polarized light interaction with biological
tissues and presents some of the recent key polarization optical methods that have made …

Aqueous solutions containing light-absorbing nanoparticles have recently been shown to
produce steam at high efficiencies upon solar illumination, even when the temperature of the …

A general survey is provided on the capability of Monte Carlo (MC) modeling in tissue optics
while paying special attention to the recent progress in the development of methods for …

Polarization-based imaging can provide new diagnostic capabilities in clinical and
preclinical studies. Various methodologies of increasing complexity have been proposed by …

Polarization‐based optical techniques have become increasingly popular in the field of
biomedical diagnosis. In the current report we exploit the directional awareness of circularly …

This is the second section of the review-tutorial paper describing fundamentals of tissue
optics and photonics. As the first section of the paper was mostly devoted to description of …

Cancerous and healthy human colon samples have been analyzed ex-vivo using a
multispectral imaging Mueller polarimeter operated in the visible (from 500 to 700 nm) in a …