Fig. 3.

Results of the model experiments: (a) $V$ Stokes parameter, (b) DoP of light reflected from the mirror (black circles, ${\mu }_s=0{\mathrm{mm}}^{-1}$) and scattered from two phantoms with different scattering coefficients (green triangles: ${\mu }_s=4{\mathrm{mm}}^{-1}$, purple squares: ${\mu }_s=8{\mathrm{mm}}^{-1}$), (c) Stokes vectors (black spheres, ${\mu }_s=0{\mathrm{mm}}^{-1}$, green cones: ${\mu }_s=4{\mathrm{mm}}^{-1}$, purple cubes: ${\mu }_s=8{\mathrm{mm}}^{-1}$) mapped on the Poincaré sphere with respect to the DoP. Inner (yellow) and outer (gray) spheres correspond to 15% and 100% DoP, respectively. Video 2 demonstrates the Poincaré sphere from panel (c) rotating around $V$ Stokes axis (Video 2, mp4, 4 Mb URL: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.25.5.057001.2]).