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The study of the propagation of light, and associated phenomena, in crystalline solids.


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Figure 1.Index ellipsoid, showing construction of directions of vibrations of D vectors belonging to a wave normal s. The vectors D' and D? define the orthogonal decomposition of the displacement vector D and will depend on the orientation in the x, y, z coordinate system. (After M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, 7th ed., reprinted with corrections, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2002)
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Figure 2.Huygens construction for a plane wave incident normally on transparent calcite. If one proceeds to find the common tangents to the secondary wavelets shown, the two plane waves labeled OO' and EE' are obtained. (After F. A. Jenkins and H. E. White, Fundamentals of Optics, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1976)
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Figure 3.Huygens construction when the optic axis lies in the plane of incidence. (After F. A. Jenkins and H. E. White, Fundamentals of Optics, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1976)
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