  The design of broad-band polarimeters with high performance is challenging
due to the wavelength dependence of optical components. An efficient Genetic
Algorithm (GA) computer code was recently developed in order to design and
re-optimize complete broadband Stokes polarimeters and Mueller matrix
ellipsometers (MME). Our results are improvements of previous patented designs
based on two and three ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLC), and are suited for
broad-band hyperspectral imaging, or multichannel spectroscopy applications. We
have realized and implemented one design using two FLCs and compare the
spectral range and precision with previous designs.
