Cotton–Mouton effect
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Cotton–Mouton effect
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In physical optics, the Cotton–Mouton effect is the birefringence in a liquid in the presence of a constant transverse magnetic field. It is a similar but stronger effect than the Voigt effect. Its electric analog is the Kerr effect. It was discovered in 1905 by Aimé Cotton and Henri Mouton, working in collaboration and publishing in Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences. When a linearly polarized wave propagates perpendicularly to a magnetic field, it can become el
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Birefringence in a liquid in the presence of a constant transverse magnetic field
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