Light propagation in biaxial crystals

Alex Turpin; Yury V. Loiko; Todor K. Kalkandjiev; Jordi Mompart

doi:10.1088/2040-8978/17/6/065603

Light propagation in biaxial crystals

Alex Turpin, Yury V. Loiko, Todor K. Kalkandjiev, Jordi Mompart

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© 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd. We present a formalism able to predict the transformation of light beams passing through biaxial crystals. We use this formalism to show both theoretically and experimentally the transition from double refraction to conical refraction, which is found when light propagates along one of the optic axes of a biaxial crystal. Additionally, we demonstrate that the theory is applicable both to non-cylindrically symmetric and non-homogeneously polarized beams by predicting the transformation of input beams passing through a cascade of biaxial crystals.

Original language	English
Article number	065603
Journal	Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)
Volume	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8978/17/6/065603
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2015

Keywords

biaxial crystals
birefringence
conical refraction

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