Fig. 1. Polarized ray tracing schematic

Fig. 2. Optical system structure

Fig. 3. MTF distribution of Golay3 sparse aperture optical system

Fig. 4. Three-dimensional MTF distribution of Golay3 sparse aperture optical system

Fig. 5. Amplitude and phase reflectance coefficient variation plots for r_p and r_s on main mirror surface. (a) |r_s|; (b) |r_p|; (c) φ_s; (d) φ_p

Fig. 6. Diattenuation and retardance plots at 0° field of view. (a) M1 diattenuation; (b) M2 diattenuation; (c) system diattenuation; (d) M1 retardance; (e) M2 retardance; (f) system retardance

Fig. 7. PV plots of diattenuation and retardance in full field of view. (a) M1 diattenuation; (b) M2 diattenuation; (c) system diattenuation;(d) M1 retardance; (e) M2 retardance; (f) system retardance

Fig. 8. Jones pupil amplitude plots of Golay3 system. (a) A_XX; (b) A_XY; (c) A_YX; (d) A_YY

Fig. 9. Jones pupil phase plots of Golay3 system. (a) φ_XX;(b) φ_XY; (c) φ_YX; (d) φ_YY

Fig. 10. Golay3 system’s amplitude response matrix amplitude plots. (a) M_ARM,XX; (b) M_ARM,XY; (c) M_ARM,YX; (d) M_ARM,YY

Fig. 11. MTM of Golay3 system with filling factor 0.33

Fig. 12. Impact of different filling factors on MTM of Golay3 system. (a) Horizontal direction; (b) vertical direction