Ray-tracing formulas for refraction and internal reflection in uniaxial crystals

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 34, 1998, Pages 7947-7953

  Beyerle, Georg ^a,b   McDermid, I Stuart ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCITE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT REFRACTION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VECTORS;

DIRECTION COSINE; FRESNELS EQUATION; INTERNAL REFLECTION; NONORTHONORMAL COORDINATE SYSTEM; UNIAXIAL CRYSTALS;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 0032364757     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.007947     Document Type: Article

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