The tendency of a material to cause a ray of light to separate, or the degree to which the ray separates, into two unequally refracted, plane-polarized rays of orthogonal polarizations.
AAT
3000191608
birefraction
double refraction
extraordinary ray
ordinary ray
pockels effect
refraction, double
13yrs ago
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