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. The...
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In physics the magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) or the surface magneto-optic Kerr effect (SMOKE) is one of the magneto-optic effects. It describes the...
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electro-optics. He is best known for the discovery of what is now called the Kerr effect. John Kerr was born on 17 December 1824 in Ardrossan, Scotland. He was a student...
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magneto-optic material are known as the magneto-optic Kerr effect (not to be confused with the nonlinear Kerr effect). In general, magneto-optic effects break time...
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Graphene (redirect from Anomalous quantum Hall effect)
nonlinear phase shift due to the optical nonlinear Kerr effect. Graphene demonstrates a large nonlinear Kerr coefficient of 10−7 cm2⋅W−1, nearly nine orders...
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effect was only measured thirty years later by John Kerr. In 1897, Henri Becquerel wrote the formula for the angle of rotation of the Faraday effect....
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Kerr-lens mode-locking (KLM) is a method of mode-locking lasers via the nonlinear optical Kerr effect. This method allows the generation of pulses of...
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solids show the Pockels effect, as it requires lack of inversion symmetry Kerr effect (or quadratic electro-optic effect, QEO effect): change in the refractive...
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Optical Kerr effect, intensity-dependent refractive index (a χ ( 3 ) {\displaystyle \chi ^{(3)}} effect). Self-focusing, an effect due to the optical Kerr effect...
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Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, who studied the effect in 1893. The non-linear counterpart, the Kerr effect, causes changes in the refractive index at a...
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range of 25-100 micrometers can be easily seen by Kerr microscopy, which uses the magneto-optic Kerr effect, which is the rotation of the polarization of...
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Silicon photonics (section Kerr nonlinearity)
governed by a range of nonlinear optical phenomena including the Kerr effect, the Raman effect, two-photon absorption and interactions between photons and...
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will induce a varying refractive index of the medium due to the optical Kerr effect. This variation in refractive index will produce a phase shift in the...
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List of effects (redirect from Effect (causality))
Kautsky effect (fluorescence) Kaye effect (fluid dynamics) Ken Burns effect (film techniques) Kendall effect (telecommunications) Kerr effect (nonlinear...
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Zeeman effect. Magneto-optic Kerr effect Voigt effect Faraday effect Cotton–Mouton effect Polarization spectroscopy Zeeman energy Stark effect Lamb shift...
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in vapors. Unlike many other magneto-optical effects such as the Kerr or Faraday effect which are linearly proportional to the magnetization (or to the...
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the transmitted light beam to be applied. The cell makes use of the Kerr effect, in which the nitrobenzene becomes birefringent under the influence of...
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nonlinear optical effect where one wavelength of light can affect the phase of another wavelength of light through the optical Kerr effect. When the optical...
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Electrets are the dual of permanent magnets; The Faraday effect is the dual of the Kerr effect; The hypothetical magnetic monopole is the dual of electric...
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altered by the optical Kerr effect.) In the time domain, while mode-locked lasers almost always emit a series of short pulses, Kerr frequency combs generally...
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light through a medium without diffraction. This is possible because the Kerr effect causes an index of refraction change in the medium, resulting in self-focusing...
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exposure time used was a single microsecond. Engineering portal Kerr cell shutter Kerr effect "EG&G the Company: 1947 Onwards". Harold "Doc" Edgerton. Massachusetts...
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strength. If the pulse has just the right shape, the Kerr effect exactly cancels the dispersion effect and the pulse's shape does not change over time. Thus...
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but stronger effect than the Voigt effect (in which the medium is a gas). Its electric analog is the Kerr effect. It was discovered in 1905 by Aimé Cotton...
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participate in a research programme on the Kerr effect. In 1893 he submitted his doctoral thesis on the Kerr effect, the reflection of polarized light on a...
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Branka Ladanyi (section Theory and molecular simulation of light scattering and optical Kerr effect in fluids)
Branka Maria Ladanyi (September 7, 1947 – January 30, 2016) was a Yugoslavian-born Croatian-American physical chemist, who spent her career in the department...
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some models of shallow water waves (Korteweg–de Vries equation), the Kerr effect in optical fibres, described by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, and...
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produced by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) Magneto-optic Kerr effect, MOKE, effect used for measuring magnetic properties Tropical Storm Moke (1984)...
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The Kerr metric or Kerr geometry describes the geometry of empty spacetime around a rotating uncharged axially symmetric black hole with a quasispherical...
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Soliton (optics) (section Effect of power losses)
within the fiber. Spatial solitons are based on the same principle: the Kerr effect introduces a self-phase modulation that changes the refractive index...
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