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Optics for Engineers
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Optics for Engineers

by Charles A. DiMarzio
August 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
564 pages
20h 45m
English
CRC Press
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POLARIZED LIGHT
In the 1600s, Huygens [22] recognized that there are “two kinds of light.” Snell’s law of refrac-
tion, which had recently been discovered empirically, related the bending of light across a
boundary to a quantity called the index of refraction. In some materials Huygens observed
light refracting in two different directions. He assumed, correctly, that the two different kinds
of light had different indices of refraction. Almost 200 years later, Young [25] provided an
understanding in terms of transverse waves that shortly preceded Maxwell’s unication of the
equations of electromagnetics.
Today, the principles of polarization are used ...
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ISBN: 9781439807255