Paper Title
APPLICATIONS OF MUELLER MATRIX POLARIMETRY TO OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS

Abstract
Abstract - Exploiting the polarimetric information of electromagnetic waves is now the subject of growing interest in many research fields such as biochemistry, medicine, astronomy and remote sensing from space; because it increases considerably the number of information about the medium that we want to analyze. Different techniques have been developed to measure polarimetric characteristics, among them the Mueller polarimeter, based on the study of the polarization modification during light-media interaction. The Mueller polarimetry allows the acquisition of the full linear polarimetric response of a medium, and lead to the knowledge of its dichroism, birefringence, depolarization…… Inthis work, we focusedto highlightthe possibility of usingtheMuellerpolarimeter as in investigativetoolfor the characterization ofopticalproperties of differentmedia intendedfor optics. In this work, we present a new method used for discrimination of the optical properties and particularly polarimetric of polymer sample (low density polyethylene), to see the influence of the temperature of the manufacturing process on the optical characteristics and especially the polarimetric ones of a light beam passing through this polymer. While basing itself in this method on one modelled of simulation developed to describe the matrix of Mueller of the vacuum. To determine this matrix, a system of working and a system of analysis must be used, and one of these two systems contains the sample which one seeks to study. The results demonstrate that these techniques could provide information for the optical characterization of polymers in general. Keywords - Polarimetry, Mueller Vacuum Matrix, Polymeric Materials, Optical Properties