The electrogyration effect in crystalline quartz

1977 ◽  
Vol 353 (1673) ◽  
pp. 177-192 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Electric Field ◽  
Transverse Electric ◽  
Light Wave ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Optical Modulators ◽  
Crystalline Quartz ◽  
The Third ◽  
Electric Field Dependence ◽  
Rank Tensor ◽  
Linearly Polarized

A linear electrogyration effect has been identified in crystalline α -quartz. This is an effect whereby the polarization direction of a linearly polarized light wave propagating in the crystal is rotated by the application of a transverse electric field. It is thus an electric field dependence of the optical activity in quartz. The third rank tensor characterizing the effect has been fully quantified. The effect has potential usefulness in measurement transducers and in optical modulators.

Influence of Magnetic Field on Level of Linearly Polarized Laser Beam Passing through Faraday Crystal

2021 ◽  
Vol 408 ◽  
pp. 129-140
Author(s):  
Samer H. Zyoud ◽  
Atef Abdelkader ◽  
Ahed H. Zyoud ◽  
Araa Mebdir Holi
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Electric Field ◽  
Laser Beam ◽  
Active Material ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Linearly Polarized ◽  
Physical Effects ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Polarization Level ◽  
Optically Active Material

Many natural materials have the ability to rotate the polarization level of linearly polarized laser beam and pass through it. This phenomenon is called optical activity. In the event that a light beam (linearly polarized) passes through an optically active material, such as a quartz crystal, and projected vertically on the optical axis, the output beam will be polarized equatorially, and the vibration level will rotate at a certain angle [1], [2], [3]. A number of crystals, liquids, solutions, and vapors rotate the electric field of linearly polarized light that passes through them [4], [5], [6], [7]. Many different physical effects are applied to optical isotropic and transparent materials that cause them to behave as optical active materials, where they are able to rotate the polarization level of the polarized light linearly and pass through it [8], [9], [10]. These effects include mechanical strength, electric field, and magnetic field. By placing one of these effects on an optically transparent medium, it changes the behavior of the light travelling through it [11].

scholarly journals Геометрическая оптика твист-ориентированного нематического жидкого кристалла с анизотропным поглощением

2019 ◽  
Vol 127 (11) ◽  
pp. 787
Author(s):  
А.О. Овакимян ◽  
А.Э. Айвазян ◽  
Л.С. Асланян
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystal ◽  
Anisotropic Medium ◽  
Light Propagation ◽  
Light Wave ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Asymmetric Effect ◽  
Electric Component ◽  
Linearly Polarized

The spatial dynamics of polarized light in a smoothly inhomogeneous anisotropic medium mixed with an anisotropic absorbing dye is analyzed. As such a medium, a twist-oriented nematic liquid crystal with a pleochroic dye was considered. In the geometrical-optical approximation, a system of coupled shortened equations for the Cartesian components of the electric component of the light wave is obtained. A system of coupled complex equations was analytically solved and the behavior of a linearly polarized wave in such a medium was analyzed in the case of both absorption and amplification. An asymmetric effect of these two processes on the spatial dynamics of light propagation in the medium is found.

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