Abstract
Abstract Considerable progress in the quantitative description of the mechanical properties of rubber has taken place in recent years by the consideration of a rubber as a network of statistically kinked long-chain molecules. A treatment of the optical properties of strained rubber on this basis, with the assumption that the links of the molecular chain are themselves optically anisotropic, has been developed by Kuhn and Grun for the special case of simple elongation, and by me for general homogeneous strain. In the latter case, the rubber has three principal refractive indices, n1, n2, and n3, corresponding to the three principal axes of the strain ellipsoid.
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