Polarized light in liquid crystals and polymers deals with the linear optics of birefringent materials such as liquid crystals and polymers and surveys light propagation in such media with special attention to applications it is unique in treating light propagation in micro and nanostructured birefringent optical elements such as lenses . Design of high resolution optical elements with liquid crystals and polymers this book presents the basic principles and provides a systematic treatment of light propagation in liquid crystals and polymers from ray tracing to bragg reflection it is intended to be a textbook for engineers and scientists as well as students. Request pdf polarized light in liquid crystals and polymers maxwell equations for stratified mediajones formalism in examplesextended jones matrix methodthe 4 x 4 berreman method analytical . Polarized light in liquid crystals and polymers deals with the linear optics of birefringent materials such as liquid crystals and polymers and surveys light propagation in such media with special attention to applications it is unique in treating light propagation in micro and nanostructured birefringent optical elements such as lenses and . Optical properties of liquid crystals effect of liquid crystals on polarized light during the last decades of the 19th century pioneering investigators of liquid crystals such as the german physicist otto lehmann and the austrian botanist friedrich reinitzer equipped ordinary microscopes with pairs of polarizing filters to obtain images of nematic and smectic phases