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OriginalBirefringence of a laser beam as it passes through a calcite crystal traveling from left to right, there is also some fluorescence effects.
Reason
The photo shows the subject of the article in a simple and easy to comprehend way. It shows the birefringence property of a crystal as the laser beam splits in two while traveling from left to right. There is also some secondary fluorescence effects. FP on Commons.
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Birefringence
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Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Materials science
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Jan Pavelka

Promoted File:Fluorescence in calcite.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 02:06, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]