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Why don't you make some more web-search?

Student version is not free (http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/how-to-buy/education/students.html). Perhaps you mean that you can obtain a free copy from your university (which bought it).

Mathematica (but it is not free)

Thank you xts, £26 would be ok but I am specifically looking for Wollaston-like prisms. My problem is that commercially-cheap polarization beam splitters work by internal reflection, therefore the 2 outgoing rays exit from 2 different faces of the prism. What I need instead, is the 2 divergent...

I would like to buy a calcite Wollaston prism, but they are priced €450-700 for 10x10mm to 14x14mm prisms (plus €150 for "broadband antireflection coating") which means way beyond my budget. I was wondering why are these objects that expensive? I have asked the same question to two different...

I want to understand why unpolarized light, after passing through calcite (for example), is polarized and why it is not unpolarized. You may say because of birefringence effect, and that's ok. But I'd like to understand what's going on "in the clouds"... Thanks

Thank you for the answer and link. However I still have some doubts. From the website you pointed: "Light entering an isotropic crystal is refracted at a constant angle and passes through the crystal at a single velocity without being polarized by interaction with the electronic components...

I am trying to understand birefringence effect. I have read many different sources online, but what I do not understand is why refracted light rays come out polarized (from a calcite crystal for example). What actually polarize light? Can somebody help? Thank you a lot!