Which consequence results when unpolarized calibration light encounters stressed polymer?

💡 Explanation

Stress causes birefringence that splits light into two orthogonal polarization modes depending on the stress magnitude; therefore polarized light changes, rather than fluorescence or harmonic generation arising, because those require resonant transitions.

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