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Light propagation in anisotropic media

  • Giovanni GiusfrediEmail author
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So far, the interaction between light and matter has been treated very succinctly, approximating the polarization P and the magnetization M with linear functions of the fields E and B. In this chapter, we will stick with this assumption, however, we will devote more attention to optical materials and, in particular, to the study of their anisotropic properties. The field of this study is nevertheless very vast and of great applicative importance, for the numerous effects that are encountered there.

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  1. 1.European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)Istituto Nazionale di Ottica—Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (INO-CNR)Sesto FiorentinoItaly

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