Wish I knew how to pronounce it but until I meet you I will say it the best I can. Is the "a" long and is the "eh" pronounced "e"?
Anyway, your thesis is fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!
You are the only one that demonstrated changing polarization in a way that I understood immediately! You only have a sentence or two about it but what they say is true.. A picture is worth a thousand words. Your diagram was worth a million words, I now see polarization in a new way.
The polarization thing is a whole course in itself. I re-rayed my entire table tonight. I put a dual mirror set-up as in your thesis and I am ecstatic. I can take a polarizer and see a complete 90 degree of rotation in the beam after the laser and the beam after the dual mirror set up. I then loaded a clean glass plate (I found that important) and moved the plate holder not only in an angle perpendicular to the table but horizontal to it and found some interesting observations. One - I found fringes on the raw laser beam reflection. If I moved the plate right left or top bottom I would find that the fringes got bigger at the dimmest point. I then verified these tweaks with the polarizer. The reflected beam and the transmitted beam were very close to exactly 90@ off one another.
Fortunately, my wife came up with an awesome idea, which may put my holography on the map. If you want details I will e-mail you...I owe you big.
Wish I knew how to pronounce it but until I meet you I will say it the best I can. Is the "a" long and is the "eh" pronounced "e"?
I answer to most sounds, but correct is Kaave, as you say.
It makes all the work worthwhile bits of it become useful! I tried to keep the math to a minimum, as it's not really needed in display work. Let me know if any parts are not clear.