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Nonlinear Optics - Pockels effect
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[QUOTE="SchroedingersLion, post: 6013938, member: 624040"] Greetings, is anyone here familiar with nonlinear optics? I want to know wether the Pockels effect only occurs in optically anisotropic media or not. Of course, we need a medium with inversion symmetry ("non-centrosymmetric medium"), but I am not sure about the optical isotropy. In an anisotropic medium, we have natural birefringence and the Pockels effect just modifies it. So the extraordinary and ordinary wave experience different refraction indices and the difference can be tuned by a voltage. But will the Pockels effect induce birefringence in an optical isotropic medium, meaning a medium which does not have natural birefringence? Here it states that the Pockels effect only occurs in anisotropic media: [URL='http://electron6.phys.utk.edu/optics421/modules/m7/Non-linear%20optics.htm']http://electron6.phys.utk.edu/optics421/modules/m7/Non-linear optics.htm[/URL] But earlier in the text when they talk about χ[SUP]2[/SUP] term in the polarization, they say that this term is only non-zero in anisotropic media, which is wrong, since anisotropic and non-centrosymmetric is not the same. So they might be confusing the terms. Wiki makes it sound like it also occurs in isotropic media like glasses and that it also can "produce Birefringence". [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pockels_effect[/URL] Best regards SL [/QUOTE]
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