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Light refraction by an excited isotropic dispersing medium

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It is shown that a photon incident from a vacuum on a dispersing transparent isotropic medium undergoes double refraction if part of the molecules of the medium are in an excited state. The intensities of the refracted rays are estimated.

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 74–78, August, 1982.

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Veklenko, B.A. Light refraction by an excited isotropic dispersing medium. Soviet Physics Journal 25, 746–748 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00895253

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