General solutions of the theme “Light propagation in optical uniaxial crystals”
- University of Science, VNU-HCM
Published:
2017-09-30
Abstract
In this article, we introduce a new approach to receive general solutions which describe all of the properties of the light propagating across optical uniaxial crystals. In our approach we do not use the conception of refractive index ellipsoid as being done in references. The solutions are given in analytical expressions so we can handly calculate or writing a small program to compute these expressions.
Keywords:
extra-ordinary ray
light polarization
light velocity
Maxwell’s equations
optical uniaxial crystals
ordinary ray
efractive index
tensor