Conclusions
The accuracy of prism setting at which the o-ray and the e-ray images coincide is comparable to the accuracy of the autocollimation method, which can be useful for optical sighting and locating purposes. By varying angle ϕ, on the other hand, one can control the deviation of the e-ray. An application for this may be found in coherent-light optical information processing systems.
The results of this study were presented at the Scientific-Technical Conference at the V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) Institute of Electrical Engineering in Leningrad on April 16, 1970.
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Ú. Shercliff, Polarized Light [Russian translation], Mir (1965), p. 98.
“Optical Processing of Information,” Coll. of Articles, Mir (1966), p. 325.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii Fizika, No. 7, pp. 151–153, July, 1971.
The author thanks Professor V. I. Vinokurov for his support in this work.
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Osipov, Y.V. A birefringent prism with a multiplicity of light-ray positions. Soviet Physics Journal 14, 1012–1014 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00822252
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