Birefringence

Known as: Electrically controlled birefringence, Trirefringence, Double refraction 
Birefringence is the optical property of a material having a refractive index that depends on the polarization and propagation direction of light… (More)
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2012
2012
Modal birefringence in weakly guiding fibers
We examine wave propagation in few-mode and multimode fibers with a small index difference between core and cladding, where… (More)
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2010
Highly Cited
2010
Constraints on lithosphere net rotation and asthenospheric viscosity from global mantle flow models and seismic anisotropy
[1] Although an average westward rotation of the Earth’s lithosphere is indicated by global analyses of surface features tied to… (More)
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2009
Highly Cited
2009
Fast BVH Construction on GPUs
We present two novel parallel algorithms for rapidly constructing bounding volume hierarchies on manycore GPUs. The first uses a… (More)
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2003
Highly Cited
2003
Electromagnetic wave propagation in media with indefinite permittivity and permeability tensors.
We study the behavior of wave propagation in materials for which not all of the principal elements of the permeability and… (More)
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2003
Highly Cited
2003
Approximating and Intersecting Surfaces from Points
Point sets become an increasingly popular shape representation. Most shape processing and rendering tasks require the… (More)
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2002
2002
Photonic bandgap fibers with high birefringence
A highly birefringent air-guiding photonic crystal fiber which provides guidance by a full two-dimensional photonic bandgap (PBG… (More)
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2001
Highly Cited
2001
Faster , Better : Shear-Wave Velocity to 100 Meters Depth from Refraction Microtremor Arrays
Current techniques of estimating shallow shear velocities for assessment of earthquake site response are too costly for use at… (More)
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1989
Highly Cited
1989
Visibility Problems for Polyhedral Terrains
In this paper we study several problems concerning the visibility of a polyhedral terrain ~r from a point (or several points… (More)
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1988
Highly Cited
1988
Space subdivision for fast ray tracing
 
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1988
Highly Cited
1988
Analysis of an algorithm for fast ray tracing using uniform space subdivision
Ray tracing is becoming popular as the best method of rendering high quality images from three dimensional models. Unfortunately… (More)
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