Abstract

When a plane-polarized “ordinary” beam inside calcite, incident on a surface at a very oblique angle gives rise to only a single plane-polarized ordinary reflected beam, instead of to the usual two, the ordinary and extra-ordinary beams, the beam refracted in a transparent and optically nonactive immersion liquid is found to be elliptically polarized. When the angle between the internally incident beam in the crystal and the surface of the crystal is 21° (for a particular orientation) and when the angle of refraction in the liquid is 84°46′, experiment shows that the ellipticity of the polarization of the transmitted beam is 0.1754 and that the azimuth of the elliptic polarization makes an angle of 23°25′ with the pole of the plane of incidence.

© 1967 Optical Society of America

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