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rotators, beam splitters, and beam displacers. Birefringent crystals such as cal-
cite, lithium niobate, rutile, and yttrium vanadate are polarization-sensitive
materials used in such components.
Further Reading
1. B. E. A. Saleh and M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, Wiley, New York, 1991. This book
presents an advanced encyclopedic treatment of all aspects of the fundamentals of photonics.
2. E. Hecht, Optics, 4th ed., Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 2002. A classical undergraduate-level
university textbook on optics.
3. J. L. Miller and E. Friedman, Photonics Rules of Thumb: Optics, Electro-Optics, Fiber Optics, and
Lasers, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996.
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