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956: 2409:, which become important when the intensity becomes very high. As the intensity of the self-focused spot increases beyond a certain value, the medium is ionized by the high local optical field. This lowers the refractive index, defocusing the propagating light beam. Propagation then proceeds in a series of repeated focusing and defocusing steps. 2854: 622: 2176: 1825: 515: 1442: 183:, no light will be transmitted when the electric field is turned off, while nearly all of the light will be transmitted for some optimum value of the electric field. Higher values of the Kerr constant allow complete transmission to be achieved with a smaller applied electric field. 1972: 951:{\displaystyle P_{i}=\varepsilon _{0}\sum _{j=1}^{3}\chi _{ij}^{(1)}E_{j}+\varepsilon _{0}\sum _{j=1}^{3}\sum _{k=1}^{3}\chi _{ijk}^{(2)}E_{j}E_{k}+\varepsilon _{0}\sum _{j=1}^{3}\sum _{k=1}^{3}\sum _{l=1}^{3}\chi _{ijkl}^{(3)}E_{j}E_{k}E_{l}+\cdots } 1983: 2346: 1678: 381: 1203: 2858: 1590:
In the optical or AC Kerr effect, an intense beam of light in a medium can itself provide the modulating electric field, without the need for an external field to be applied. In this case, the electric field is given by:
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For materials exhibiting a non-negligible Kerr effect, the third, χ term is significant, with the even-order terms typically dropping out due to inversion symmetry of the Kerr medium. Consider the net electric field
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which is similar to the linear relationship between polarization and an electric field of a wave, with an additional non-linear susceptibility term proportional to the square of the amplitude of the external field.
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of the electric field instead of varying linearly with it. All materials show a Kerr effect, but certain liquids display it more strongly than others. The Kerr effect was discovered in 1875 by Scottish physicist
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The optical Kerr effect manifests itself temporally as self-phase modulation, a self-induced phase- and frequency-shift of a pulse of light as it travels through a medium. This process, along with
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The optical Kerr effect, or AC Kerr effect is the case in which the electric field is due to the light itself. This causes a variation in index of refraction which is proportional to the local
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As the beam self-focuses, the peak intensity increases which, in turn, causes more self-focusing to occur. The beam is prevented from self-focusing indefinitely by nonlinear effects such as
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Spatially, an intense beam of light in a medium will produce a change in the medium's refractive index that mimics the transverse intensity pattern of the beam. For example, a
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The magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) is the phenomenon that the light reflected from a magnetized material has a slightly rotated plane of polarization. It is similar to the
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Two special cases of the Kerr effect are normally considered, these being the Kerr electro-optic effect, or DC Kerr effect, and the optical Kerr effect, or AC Kerr effect.
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light, since the Kerr effect responds very quickly to changes in electric field. Light can be modulated with these devices at frequencies as high as 10 
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For non-symmetric media (e.g. liquids), this induced change of susceptibility produces a change in refractive index in the direction of the electric field:
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when light is incident on it in a direction perpendicular to the electric field. If the material is placed between two "crossed" (perpendicular) linear
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The Kerr electro-optic effect, or DC Kerr effect, is the special case in which a slowly varying external electric field is applied by, for instance, a
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Hernández-Acosta, M A; Trejo-Valdez, M; Castro-Chacón, J H; Torres-San Miguel, C R; Martínez-Gutiérrez, H; Torres-Torres, C (23 February 2018).
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is the intensity of the wave. The refractive index change is thus proportional to the intensity of the light travelling through the medium.
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Dharmadhikari, A. K.; Dharmadhikari, J. A.; Mathur, D. (2008). "Visualization of focusing–refocusing cycles during filamentation in BaF
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For a linear medium, only the first term of this equation is significant and the polarization varies linearly with the electric field.
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Rashidian Vaziri, M R (2015). "Comment on "Nonlinear refraction measurements of materials using the moiré deflectometry"".
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Kerr, John (1875). "A new relation between electricity and light: Dielectrified media birefringent (Second paper)".
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are relatively small for most materials, on the order of 10 m W for typical glasses. Therefore, beam intensities (
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is the strength of the electric field. This difference in index of refraction causes the material to act like a
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This article is about the Kerr nonlinear optical effect. For the magneto-optic phenomenon of the same name, see
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in the medium in the direction of the field. A Kerr cell with a transverse field can thus act as a switchable
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Melnichuk, Mike; Wood, Lowell T. (2010). "Direct Kerr electro-optic effect in noncentrosymmetric materials".
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Kerr, John (1875). "A new relation between electricity and light: Dielectrified media birefringent".
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Combining this with the equation for the polarization, and taking only linear terms and those in χ|
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parallel to or perpendicular to the applied field. The difference in index of refraction,
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As before, this looks like a linear susceptibility with an additional non-linear term:
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on electrodes across the sample material. Under this influence, the sample becomes
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produced by a light wave of frequency ω together with an external electric field
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Change in refractive index of a material in response to an applied electric field
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Experimental Observation of Non-Linear Mode Conversion in Few-Mode Fiber
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results in a Gaussian refractive index profile, similar to that of a
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where the plane of polarization of the transmitted light is rotated.
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of the light. This refractive index variation is responsible for the
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Combining these two equations produces a complex expression for
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of the medium. We can write that relationship explicitly; the
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to achieve complete transparency. This is in contrast to
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in that the induced index change for the Kerr effect is
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is the second-order nonlinear refractive index, and
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Index

Kerr cell
magneto-optic Kerr effect
refractive index
electric field
Pockels effect
directly proportional
John Kerr
voltage
birefringent
polarized
waveplate
polarizers
polar
nitrotoluene
nitrobenzene
modulate
GHz
kV
Pockels cells
nitrobenzene
inversion symmetry
Pockels effect
irradiance
nonlinear optical
self-focusing
self-phase modulation
modulational instability
Kerr-lens modelocking
lasers
multimode fiber

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