Michel-Levy charts can be used to determine the order of the retardation associated with this phenonmenon.
Michel-Levy charts can be used to determine the order of the retardation associated with this phenonmenon. It can only be observed in materials whose properties are anisotropic with (*) respect to an axis. It can be naturally observed in molecules such as sodium nitrate and Rutile, Tourmaline or be induced by a electromagnetic field as in the Cotton-Mouton, Voigt and Kerr effects. However, it is most commonly seen in Nicol, Glan-Foucalt and Wollaston prisms, all of which utilizes calcite crystals. For 10 points, name this phenonmenon in which light divides into two components in a material, sometimes called double refraction.
Michel-Levy charts can be used to determine the order of the retardation associated with this phenonmenon.
{Birefringence} [prompt on {double refraction}] (3) [DF]