Division of a single incident light ray or other electromagnetic wave into two separate rays in an anisotropic medium.
〔物理〕双折射
Example sentencesExamples
If a beam of light is shone at the sides of the rhomb, the beam splits in two, a phenomenon known as double refraction.
On the other hand, I used to find him plunged as deeply into the study of light polarisation, diffraction, and interference, single and double refraction, and all manner of strange organic compounds.
He spent two years there, in particular studying the double refraction Bartholin had discovered in Iceland spar crystal.
Today, there are four basic methods for polarizing light: absorption, reflection, double refraction, and scattering.
Think of the strain lines showing up under polarized light in diamonds with anomalous double refraction.
Definition of double refraction in US English:
double refraction
noun
Physics
Division of a single incident light ray or other electromagnetic wave into two separate rays in an anisotropic medium.
〔物理〕双折射
Example sentencesExamples
He spent two years there, in particular studying the double refraction Bartholin had discovered in Iceland spar crystal.
Today, there are four basic methods for polarizing light: absorption, reflection, double refraction, and scattering.
If a beam of light is shone at the sides of the rhomb, the beam splits in two, a phenomenon known as double refraction.
On the other hand, I used to find him plunged as deeply into the study of light polarisation, diffraction, and interference, single and double refraction, and all manner of strange organic compounds.
Think of the strain lines showing up under polarized light in diamonds with anomalous double refraction.