Abstract

With reference to the analysis contained in J. Opt. Soc. Am. 73, 920 (1983), certain comments on and clarifications of the paraxial wave equation pertaining to the extraordinary-mode beam propagating obliquely to the optic axis in a uniform uniaxial crystal are presented.

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