Relations between the critical angles and the optical tensor of a biaxial material

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 34, 2002, Pages 7264-7274

  Yang, Fuzi ^a   Gao, Hongjin ^a   Sambles, J Roy ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; REFRACTOMETERS; TENSORS;

OPTICAL TENSOR;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0036903687     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.007264     Document Type: Article

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