Progress in Optics 
Subtitle: Volume XL (Progress in Optics)
Publisher: North-Holland
Published: February 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780444503053
Subjects: Optics (light); Lasers in Medicine; Optometry; Research; Optics; Medical
First sentence: The phenomenon of polarization was discovered by Huyghens in 1690 by passing light through two calcite crystals, and only in 1808 Malus passed partially reflected light through a calcite crystal and found that it was polarized (Born and Wolf [1993]).