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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… 
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Review
2015
Review
2015
Axion Cosmology
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Broadband graphene polarizer
Scientists study the coupling, guiding and polarizing of electromagnetic waves in graphene and demonstrate a graphene-based fibre… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Optics of Liquid Crystal Displays
  • P. Yeh
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • 2007
  • Corpus ID: 30781926
This tutorial covers an introduction to liquid crystal technology and principles of operation of various modes of liquid crystal… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Improved second-order Møller–Plesset perturbation theory by separate scaling of parallel- and antiparallel-spin pair correlation energies
A simple modification of second-order Moller–Plesset perturbation theory (MP2) to improve the description of molecular ground… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Bending instability of electrically charged liquid jets of polymer solutions in electrospinning
Nanofibers of polymers were electrospun by creating an electrically charged jet of polymer solution at a pendent droplet. After… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Liquid-Crystal Photonic-Band-Gap Materials: The Tunable Electromagnetic Vacuum
tion of the nematic director field with respect to the inverse opal backbone by an external electric field can completely open or… 
Review
1997
Review
1997
Application of the Manakov-PMD equation to studies of signal propagation in optical fibers with randomly varying birefringence
We report on our investigations of the Manakov-polarization mode dispersion (PMD) equation which can be used to model both… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Astigmatic laser mode converters and transfer of orbital angular momentum
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Space subdivision for fast ray tracing
  • A. Glassner
  • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
  • 1984
  • Corpus ID: 16965964
An algorithm is described that speeds up ray-tracing techniques by reducing the number of time-consuming object-ray intersection… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Electromagnetic propagation in periodic stratified media. II. Birefringence, phase matching, and x-ray lasers *
The theory of electromagnetic Bloch waves in periodic stratified media is applied to the problems of birefringence and group… 
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