Electro-optic effect

The electro-optic effect describes the dependence of the refractive index of a medium of an external electric field.

The dependence of the index of refraction of the electric field strength can be represented by a Taylor series:

Here, the refractive index in the absence of a field.

  • If, it is called linear electro-optic effect or the Pockels effect. is then relative to negligible except for extremely high electric fields.
  • If and, one speaks of the quadratic electro -optic effect or Kerr effect.
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Optical effect
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