The SIMPOL sensor concept was inspired by the degrees of freedom present in the stomatopod visual system. The compound eye of mantis shrimp contains spectrally selective and polarization-sensitive elements that are vertically stacked along a single optical axis. As light propagates into the stack, the mantis shrimp extracts spectral and polarization information. Analogously, the SIMPOL sensor comprises spectrally selective (the FRs) and polarization-sensitive elements (the OPVs) that are vertically stacked along a single optical axis. The spectral and polarization information is detected in a similar manner as the mantis shrimp’s eye, enabling simultaneous hyperspectral and polarimetric detection.
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