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Title: Nicol prisms and Glan-Thompson prisms
Post by: dooovall [Daniel] on May 29, 2023, 02:06:00 AM
Earlier today, I was leafing through a dictionary in search of interesting words.  I stumbled upon an entry for "Nicol prism" and thought, hey, maybe there's more information about that sort of prism online.  On the Wikipedia page about Nicol prisms, I noticed a reference to Glan-Thompson prisms.

According to the Wikipedia page about Glan-Thompson prisms (link below), "A Glan-Thompson prism is a type of polarizing prism similar to the Nicol prism..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glan%E2%80%93Thompson_prism