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  2. Polaroid (polarizer) - Wikipedia

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    If the wave interacts with a line of crystals as in a sheet of polaroid, any varying electric field in the direction parallel to the line of the crystals will cause a current to flow along this line. The electrons moving in this current will collide with other particles and re-emit the light backwards and forwards.

  3. Polarized 3D system - Wikipedia

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    The left and right filters have different polarizations, so each eye receives only the image with the matching polarization. This is used to produce a three-dimensional effect by projecting the same scene into both eyes, but depicted from slightly different perspectives with different polarizations.

  4. Optical rotation - Wikipedia

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    Pasteur noticed that crystals of this compound come in two asymmetric forms that are mirror images of one another. Sorting the crystals by hand gave two forms of the compound: Solutions of one form rotate polarized light clockwise, while the other form rotate light counterclockwise. An equal mix of the two has no polarizing effect on light.

  5. Crystallographic defect - Wikipedia

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    Electron microscopy of antisites (a, Mo substitutes for S) and vacancies (b, missing S atoms) in a monolayer of molybdenum disulfide.Scale bar: 1 nm. [1]A crystallographic defect is an interruption of the regular patterns of arrangement of atoms or molecules in crystalline solids.

  6. Aberrations of the eye - Wikipedia

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    It has only recently [when?] become possible to measure the aberrations of the eye and with the advent of refractive surgery it might be possible to correct certain types of irregular astigmatism. The appearance of visual complaints such as halos , glare and monocular diplopia after corneal refractive surgery has long been correlated with the ...

  7. Crystal optics - Wikipedia

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    Crystal optics is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in anisotropic media, that is, media (such as crystals) in which light behaves differently depending on which direction the light is propagating. The index of refraction depends on both composition and crystal structure and can be calculated using the Gladstone–Dale ...

  8. Dichroism - Wikipedia

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    The original meaning of dichroic, from the Greek dikhroos, two-coloured, refers to any optical device which can split a beam of light into two beams with differing wavelengths. Such devices include mirrors and filters , usually treated with optical coatings , which are designed to reflect light over a certain range of wavelengths and transmit ...

  9. Polarimeter - Wikipedia

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    When plane-polarised light passes through some crystals, the velocity of left-polarized light is different from that of the right-polarized light, thus the crystals are said to have two refractive indices, i.e. double refracting. Construction: The polarimeter consists of a monochromatic source S which is placed at focal point of a convex lens L ...