Topic summary
Electro-optic effect
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Electro–optic effect.
- Pockels effect (or linear electro-optic effect): change in the refractive index linearly proportional to the electric field. Only certain crystalline solids show the Pockels effect, as it requires lack of inversion symmetry
- Kerr effect (or quadratic electro-optic effect, QEO effect): change in the refractive index proportional to the square of the electric field. All materials display the Kerr effect, with varying magnitudes, but it is generally much weaker than the Pockels effect
- electro-gyration: change in the optical activity.
- Electron-refractive effect or EIPM