Pockels effect
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title:
Pockels effect
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In optics, the Pockels effect, or Pockels electro-optic effect, is a directionally-dependent linear variation in the refractive index of an optical medium that occurs in response to the application of an electric field. It is named after the German physicist Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, who studied the effect in 1893. The non-linear counterpart, the Kerr effect, causes changes in the refractive index at a rate proportional to the square of the applied electric field. In optical media, the Pocke
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Linear change in the refractive index of optical media due to an electric field
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pockels_effect
date created:
2004-05-06T00:37:42Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T21:03:22Z
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