1. Photoelasticity of Crystals. Introduction. - 1. 1. Discovery of the Phenomenon of Photoelasticity. - 1. 2. Mathematical Formulation and Neumann's Constants. Pockels' Contribution. - 1. 3. A Brief Historical Survey. - 2. Mathematical Tools Tensor Properties of Crystals and Geometrical Crystallography. - 2. 1. Linear Transformations. - 2. 2. Matrix Algebra. - 2. 3. Vectors and Their Transformation Laws. - 2. 4. Tensor Nature of Physical Properties of Crystals and the Laws of Transformation of Cartesian Tensors. - 2. 5. Crystal Symmetry and Geometrical Crystallography. The 32 Point Groups. - 2. 6. Symmetry Operations and Their Transformation Matrices. - 2. 7. Symmetry Elements of the 32 Point Groups. - 2. 8. Neumann's Principle and Effect of Crystal Symmetry on Physical Properties. - 3. Pockels' Phenomenological Theory of Photoelasticity of Crystals. - 3. 1. Introduction. - 3. 2. Phenomenological Theory Stress-Optical and Strain-Optical Constants in Four- and Two-Suffix Notations; qij and pij Matrices for the 32 Crystallographic Point Groups. - 3. 3. Derivation of the Nonvanishing and Independent Photoelastic Constants for the Various Crystal Classes by Different Methods. - 4. Elasticity of Crystals. - 4. 1. Introduction. - 4. 2. Stress and Strain as Tensors. - 4. 3. Hooke's Law. - 4. 4. Experimental Methods of Determining cij and sij; Christoffel's Equation and Its Use in Determining cij of Crystals. - 4. 5. Ultrasonics. - 4. 6. Brillouin Effect and Crystal Elasticity. - 5. Experimental Methods of Determining the Photoelastic Constants. - 5. 1. Optical Behavior of a Solid under a Mechanical Stress and Neumann's Constants. - 5. 2. Derivation of Expressions for the Stress Birefringence in Terms of qij for Cubic and Noncubic Crystals. - 5. 3. Experimental Determination of qij and pij by OpticalMethods. - 5. 4. Dispersion of qij by Spectroscopic Methods. - 5. 5. Elliptic Vibrations and Elliptically Polarized Light. - 5. 6. Ultrasonic Methods of Studying the Elasto-Optic Behavior of Crystals. - 5. 7. Brillouin Scattering and Photoelasticity of Crystals. - 6. Atomistic Theory of Photoelasticity of Cubic Crystals. - 6. 1. Introduction. - 6. 2. Mueller's TheoryA Brief Survey. - 6. 3. Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on the Index of Refraction n; The Strain Polarizability Constant ?0. - 6. 4. Anisotropy of Rj and ?itj. - 6. 5. Thermo-Optic Behavior of Crystals and Photoelastic behavior. - 6. 6. Pockels' Photoelastic Groups in Cubic Crystals and Mueller's Theory. - 6. 7. Photoelastic Dispersion in Cubic Crystals; ?0 as a Function of Crystalline Material Wavelength of Light and Temperature. - 6. 8. Effect of Elastic Deformation on the Oscillator Strengths and Dispersion Frequencies of Optical Electrons. - 6. 9. Temperature Dependence of Stress-Optical Dispersion. - 7. Piezoelectricity. - 7. 1. Introduction. - 7. 2. Direct and Converse Piezoelectric Effects. - 7. 3. Mathematical Formulation Piezoelectric Constants dijk in Tensor Notation and dij in Two-Suffix Notation; Relation between dijl and dij. - 7. 4. Deduction of the Surviving dijk for Some Crystal Classes by Tensor Method and the dij Matrices for the 21 Noncentrosymmetric Classes. - 7. 5. Concluding Remarks. - 8. Electro-Optic Effects in Crystals: Pockels Linear Electro-Optic and Kerr Quadratic Electro-Optic Effects. - 8. 1. Introduction. - 8. 2. Demonstration of the Electro-Optic Effects Linear and Quadratic. - 8. 3. Historical Survey. - 8. 4. Pockels' Phenomenological Theory of the Linear Electro-Optic Effect in Three- and Two-Suffix Notations Rijk and rij. - 8. 5. Derivation of the Relation between the Linear Electro-Optic Constants ofa Crystal: Free and Clamped Constants. - 8. 6. Kerr Quadratic Electro-Optic Effect: Pockels' Phenomenological Theory. - 8. 7. Crystal Symmetry and the Number of Surviving Linear Electro-Optic Coefficients Rijk and rij and Their Deduction by Tensor Method: rij Matrices for the 21 Noncentrosymmetric Classes. - 8. 8. Derivation of the Expressions for ? = f(rij) for Some Typical Crystal Classes and Orientations. - 8. 9. Experimental Methods of Determining rij. - 8. 10. Some Points of Interest on the Use of the Pockels Effect in Crystals and Half-Wave Voltage V?/2. - 8. 11. Some Technological Applications of Pockels Cells (Linear Electro-Optic Devices). - Author Index. Language: English