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STRESS-OPTIC COEFFICIENT [1 record]

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Record 1 1977-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optical Glass
  • Optics
CONT

(...) In a transparent isotropic plate subjected to a biaxial stress field, the relative retardation (...) between the two components produced by temporary double refraction is equal to C + (p-q) (...) where C is the stress-optic coefficient (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Verres d'optique
  • Optique
CONT

Les théoriques de Newman et Maxwell (...) conduisent à [des] formules [où les C] sont les constantes optiques absolues caractéristiques du matériau. On en déduit (...) la constante optique relative du matériau.

Spanish

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