Technology for Polarization Measurement

Diattenuation

Diattenuation is the property of a transmitting material in which the transmittance depends on the incident polarization state of light. A diattenuating material will absorb linear polarization along one axis preferentially. It is related to dichroism, which is the same property but usually described in terms of absorption rather than transmission.

See Hinds Instruments' extensive application materials on dichroism.