Birefringence
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Descripción
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.
URI original del concepto
Otros términos
- 雙折射 [zh]
- dubbele breking [nl]
- birrefringencia [es]
- shuāng zhé shè [zh]
- shuang zhe she [zh]
- shuang che she [zh]
- birefraction [en]
- double refraction [en]
- extraordinary ray [en]
- ordinary ray [en]
- pockels effect [en]
- refraction, double [en]