On the existence of Jones birefringence and Jones dichroism.
We claim that the so-called Jones birefringence and Jones dichroism effects, understood as new optical phenomena of difficult experimental observation, cannot be deduced from Jones publications and were proposed due to a misinterpretation of his original work.
Arteaga
Oriol
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FEMAN Group, Departament de Física Aplicada i Optica, IN2UB, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain. oarteaga@ub.edu