Electrooptics

13 Outubro 2020, 09:00 • José Manuel Rebordão

Review: index ellipsoid (IE). Permittivity and permeability tensors.

EO effect. EO tensors (linear and quadratical). Effect of crystal class and group on the EO tensor. Deformation of the EO with the application of an electrical field. Examples.

Use of the EO effect to build light modulators. Half-wave tension. EO modulators of amplitude, polarization, phase and frequency (sidelobes).

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Saleh, Fundamentals of Photonics, Ch. 20.

 

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