birefringence

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  The splitting of a ray of light into two parallel rays of perpendicular polarization by passage through an optically anisotropic medium; the property of a material that light passing through it is so split.
 * 2) * 2012, Luís A. Fernandes, Birefringence and Bragg grating control in femtosecond laser written optical circuits,, page 112,
 * Heat accumulation in borosilicate glass [23] has [been] shown to produce lower birefringence due to radial stress regions as opposed to the more asymmetric stress produced in fused silica [136, 137]; however, these features remain unexplored in most glasses.
 * 1) * 2012, Luís A. Fernandes, Birefringence and Bragg grating control in femtosecond laser written optical circuits,, page 112,
 * Heat accumulation in borosilicate glass [23] has [been] shown to produce lower birefringence due to radial stress regions as opposed to the more asymmetric stress produced in fused silica [136, 137]; however, these features remain unexplored in most glasses.
 * 1) * 2012, Luís A. Fernandes, Birefringence and Bragg grating control in femtosecond laser written optical circuits,, page 112,
 * Heat accumulation in borosilicate glass [23] has [been] shown to produce lower birefringence due to radial stress regions as opposed to the more asymmetric stress produced in fused silica [136, 137]; however, these features remain unexplored in most glasses.

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