English Explanatory Dictionary

Wollaston prism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An optical device that separates randomly polarized or unpolarized light into two orthogonal linearly polarized outgoing beams.

Word forms

Wollaston prism Wollaston prisms

Etymology

After its inventor, William Hyde Wollaston.

Related words

Glan–Foucault prism Glan–Thompson prism Nicol prism Nomarski prism Rochon prism Sénarmont prism
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