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The simplest type of birefringence is described as uniaxial, meaning that there is a single direction governing the optical anisotropy whereby all directions perpendicular to it (or at a given angle to it) are optically equivalent.
A ray of light being refracted in a plastic block. In physics, refraction is the redirection of a wave as it passes from one medium to another. The redirection can be caused by the wave's change in speed or by a change in the medium. [1]
Min Naiben (simplified Chinese: 闵乃本; traditional Chinese: 閔乃本; pinyin: Mǐn Nǎiběn; 9 August 1935 – 16 September 2018), also known as Nai-Ben Ming, [1] was a Chinese materials scientist, physicist, and politician.