Electrooptic linear

Second Harmonic Generation and Linear Electrooptic Effect in Solids... 

Nonlinear second order optical properties such as second harmonic generation and the linear electrooptic effect arise from the first non-linear term in the constitutive relation for the polarization P(t) of a medium in an applied electric field E(t) = E cos ot. 

For crystalline solids, comparative quantities for second harmonic generation and the linear electrooptic coefficient are given by Miller s delta and the polarization optic coefficient f. The quantity 6 is defined by the relation... 

Three common types of electrooptic effects are illustrated in Figure 8 i.e, quadratic and linear birefringence and memory scattering. Also included in the figure is a typical setup required for generating each effect along with the observed behavior shown in terms of light intensity output (I) as a function of electric field (E). 

Non-linear second-order optical properties such as second harmonic generation (SHG) and the linear electrooptic effect are due to the non-linear susceptibility in the relation between the polarization and the applied electric field. SHG involves the... 

The applied voltage in effect changes the linear susceptibility and thus the refractive index of the material. This effect, known as the linear electrooptic (LEO) or Pockels effect, modulates light as a function of applied voltage. At the atomic level, the applied voltage is anisotropically distorting the electron density within the material. Thus, application of a voltage to the material causes the optical beam to "see" a different... 

This tutorial deals with nonlinear optical effects associated with the first nonlinear term in expression for the polarization expansion described in the next section. The first nonlinear term is the origin of several interesting and important effects including second-harmonic generation, the linear electrooptic or Pockels effect,... 

There is great interest in preparing materials which could facilitate the development of electrooptic devices. Such devices could permit broad band optical signal encoding so that telephone, data, television, and even higher frequency transmissions could simultaneously be sent down a single optical fiber. The nonlinear optical process which makes this possible is the linear electrooptic effect (EO). It is based on the first field nonlinearities (Z ) of the molecular dipole moment, / ,... 

For the linear electrooptic effect (EO), the two-level model only differs in dispersion, with the dispersion factor, F q (co), given by... 

We report the largest known useful microscopic NLO susceptibilities for the linear and quadratic electrooptic effects. The QEO susceptibility of 9 might be large enough to explore simple primitive QEO modulation experiments, though perhaps is not nearly large enough to be of commercial importance. 

Thus, the applied field, E2, changes the effective linear susceptibility (i.e. the dependence of the polarization on the light field, Eft. Since the linear susceptibility is related to the refractive index, the refractive index of the material is also changed by the applied field. This is known as the linear electrooptic (EO) or Pockels effect and can be used to modulate the polarization or phase of light by changing the applied voltage. 

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