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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… Expand
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Birefringence in spin-coated films containing cellulose nanocrystals
Layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembled polyelectrolyte multilayer films containing cellulose nanocrystals and poly(allylamine… Expand
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… Expand
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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… Expand
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Analysis of Induced-Birefringence Effects on Fiber Bragg Gratings
Abstract This paper reports the birefringence effects on fiber Bragg grating (FBG) in sensors, optical communications systems… Expand
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… Expand
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Optical alignment and spinning of laser-trapped microscopic particles
Light-induced rotation of absorbing microscopic particles by transfer of angular momentum from light to the material raises the… Expand
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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… Expand
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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Astigmatic laser mode converters and transfer of orbital angular momentum
Abstract We present the design of a mode converter which transforms a Hermite-gaussian mode of arbitrarily high order to a… Expand
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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… Expand
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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… Expand
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