Epsilon
Optics of anisotropic media in non-crystal-aligned coordinates
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Transparent medium
Diagonal permittivity
(Crystal coordinates)
Real off-diagonal elements
Digits:
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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Analyse & Transform
Enter the elements of the
permittivity tensor
.
Analyse & Transform
shows the
optical axes
and associated
effective refractive indices
. Controls for
rotations in 3-D
are provided, together with options for illustrating the
optical wave propagation
through the oriented medium.
∘
Axis
a
1
Axis
a
2
Axis
a
3
Box
Propagation
α =
°
≪
∘
≫
β =
°
≪
∘
≫
γ =
°
≪
∘
≫
Initial polarization:
E
x′
E
y′
E
y′
= E
0
·
· exp( i
π )
E
x′
= E
0
►
Transformation crystal coordinates ⇆ device coordinates:
R =
R
⊤
=
Permittivity:
(Device coordinates)
ϵ′ = R ϵ R
⊤
=
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
Optical axes:
(Device coordinates)
a
1
′ = R a
1
=
0
0
0
a
2
′ = R a
2
=
0
0
0
a
3
′ = R a
3
=
0
0
0
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