Optical metrics and birefringence of anisotropic media

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1731-1751

  Balakin, Alexander B ^a   Zimdahl, Winfried ^b  

^a KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropic media; Birefringence; Geometrical optics; Optical metric

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744524052     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-005-0155-3     Document Type: Article

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