{"title":"Experimental study of light refraction by a cholesteric prism","authors":"J. Martin, R. Cano","doi":"10.1088/0335-7368/6/4/306","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A De Vries wave, in the helicoidal axis direction, can be regarded as superposition of two circular vibrations. When light is refracted by an interface cholesteric-isotropic medium, the two De Vries wave must give rise to four vibrations refracted in four distinct directions. Experiments presented here show the reality of this assumption and the measurements agree with theory.","PeriodicalId":286899,"journal":{"name":"Nouvelle Revue D'optique","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1975-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nouvelle Revue D'optique","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0335-7368/6/4/306","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A De Vries wave, in the helicoidal axis direction, can be regarded as superposition of two circular vibrations. When light is refracted by an interface cholesteric-isotropic medium, the two De Vries wave must give rise to four vibrations refracted in four distinct directions. Experiments presented here show the reality of this assumption and the measurements agree with theory.