Title: Direct Kerr electro-optic effect in noncentrosymmetric materials
Abstract:In materials lacking inversion symmetry, both Pockels and Kerr electro-optic effects are simultaneously present, with the former effect generally dominating the latter one. The theoretical findings of...In materials lacking inversion symmetry, both Pockels and Kerr electro-optic effects are simultaneously present, with the former effect generally dominating the latter one. The theoretical findings of this article provide the crystal physics community with concrete tabulated evidence showing that it is possible in principle to selectively bypass contributions from the linear effect(s) and directly obtain information only about the genuine (Kerr-like) quadratic effects in $90%$ of the noncentrosymmetric point groups. The general idea and treatment used for the electro-optic effect can be extended and adapted to other optical or non-optical (phenomenological) purely quadratic effects in media lacking inversion symmetry.Read More
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-07-21
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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