Birefringence
MESHD001718
The property of nonisotropic media, such as crystals, whereby a single incident beam of light traverses the medium as two beams, each plane-polarized, the planes being at right angles to each other. (Cline et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)
Synonyms
- Birefringences
- Double Refraction
- Double Refractions
- Refraction, Double
- Refractions, Double
- Birefraction
- Birefractions
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