Inhibited reflection in uniaxial crystals

When an ordinary or extraordinary ray that propagates through a birefringent crystal is reflected it gives rise to two reflected rays whose directions may be calculated with formulas similar to Snell's law for refraction. When the reflection angle is greater than the incidence angle there is a...

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Autores principales: Simon, M.C., Echarri, R.M.
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spelling todo:paper_01469592_v14_n5_p257_Simon2023-10-03T15:00:16Z Inhibited reflection in uniaxial crystals Simon, M.C. Echarri, R.M. When an ordinary or extraordinary ray that propagates through a birefringent crystal is reflected it gives rise to two reflected rays whose directions may be calculated with formulas similar to Snell's law for refraction. When the reflection angle is greater than the incidence angle there is a critical angle for which the reflected ray is grazing, and for values of the incidence angle greater than this critical value the reflected ray no longer exists. We call this phenomenon inhibited reflection. We show how the critical angles may be calculated, and an experiment that visualizes the phenomenon shows good agreement with theory. © 1989 Optical Society of America. Fil:Simon, M.C. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Echarri, R.M. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_01469592_v14_n5_p257_Simon
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description When an ordinary or extraordinary ray that propagates through a birefringent crystal is reflected it gives rise to two reflected rays whose directions may be calculated with formulas similar to Snell's law for refraction. When the reflection angle is greater than the incidence angle there is a critical angle for which the reflected ray is grazing, and for values of the incidence angle greater than this critical value the reflected ray no longer exists. We call this phenomenon inhibited reflection. We show how the critical angles may be calculated, and an experiment that visualizes the phenomenon shows good agreement with theory. © 1989 Optical Society of America.
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title Inhibited reflection in uniaxial crystals
title_short Inhibited reflection in uniaxial crystals
title_full Inhibited reflection in uniaxial crystals
title_fullStr Inhibited reflection in uniaxial crystals
title_full_unstemmed Inhibited reflection in uniaxial crystals
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