Research on Target Simulation Technology Based on Stokes Vector

With the development of polarization optical technology, polarization detection technology plays a more and more important role in the military and other fields. Existing research demonstrates that the degree of polarization of reflected light from natural objects can often be ignored, while the degree of polarization of artificial objects is relatively large. If the target tracker can identify and track the target with this optical characteristic, the tracking efficiency can be greatly improved. However, at present, there is a lack of testing devices for relevant trackers, and the cost of physical testing is much too high. Therefore, given the lack of an available polarization target simulator, the polarization target simulator based on the Stokes vector is designed. The results show that the polarized target simulator can simulate the polarization target with specific linear polarization information, and the linear polarization degree image and polarization angle image can be obtained by the graphic calculation software.