Nonlinear Optical Crystal

Famous quotes containing the words optical and/or crystal:

    “The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men’s thinkings run laterally, never vertically.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)