International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume D
Physical properties of crystals
Edited by A. Authier

© International Union of Crystallography 2006
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. D. ch. 1.6, pp. 150-177
https://doi.org/10.1107/97809553602060000633

Chapter 1.6. Classical linear crystal optics

A. M. Glazera* and K. G. Coxb‡

a Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Roads, Oxford OX1 3PU, England, and bDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Roads, Oxford OX1 3PR, England
Correspondence e-mail:  glazer@physics.ox.ac.uk

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