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Spectropolarimetry offers new means for sensing ionized media. Polarimetric remote sensing is based on the polarization spectroscopy of ionized gases that was actively developing during the last two decades in connection with different problems of atomic and collisional physics. The general physical principles governing the polarization spectroscopy of ionized gases, the quantitative spectropolarimetric sensing of various gas discharges, and the first steps toward exploiting this method in diagnostic problems of the solar atmosphere have been presented in the book Polarization Spectroscopy of Ionized Gases by S. A. Kazantsev and J.-C. Hénoux.(1)
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Kazantsev, S.A., Petrashen, A.G., Firstova, N.M. (1999). Physical Introduction: Concepts, Phenomenology, Retrospectives, Applications. In: Impact Spectropolarimetric Sensing. Physics of Atoms and Molecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4839-3_1
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