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Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036015 (2025)

Characterizing thermal emission polarization with a mid-wave infrared broadband polarization state analyzer between 2.5 and 5 μm | Editors' Pick

Anne Nguyen¹, Enrique Garcia-Caurel², and Benjamin Vest^1,*

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¹Université Paris-Saclay, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Palaiseau, France

²Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, LPICM, Palaiseau, France

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