Note that this project does not include video content.
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Description
Birefringence is a phenomenon where anisotropic crystals diffract light like a diffraction grating. This notebook develops visualizations to better understand how this phenomenon arises from such anisotropic crystals.
Birefringence in Dispersive Media (NB)
Courtesy of Eveline Postelnicu.