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  • 1Electro-optic effect — An electro optic effect is a change in the optical properties of a material in response to an electric field that varies slowly compared with the frequency of light. The term encompasses a number of distinct phenomena, which can be subdivided… …

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  • 2Electro-gyration — The electrogyration effect is the spatial dispersion phenomenon, that consists in the change of optical activity (gyration) of crystals by a constant or time varying electric field. Being a spatial dispersion effect, the induced optical activity… …

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  • 3Kerr effect — This article is about the Kerr nonlinear optical effect. For the magneto optic phenomenon of the same name, see magneto optic Kerr effect. The Kerr effect, also called the quadratic electro optic effect (QEO effect), is a change in the refractive …

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  • 4Faraday effect — In physics, the Faraday effect or Faraday rotation is a magneto optical phenomenon, or an interaction between light and a magnetic field in a dielectric material. The rotation of the plane of polarization is proportional to the intensity of the… …

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  • 5Optical modulators using semiconductor nano-structures — Contents 1 Optical modulators using semiconductor nano structures 1.1 Electro optic modulator of nano structures 1.2 Acousto optic modulator of nano structures …

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  • 6Fiber-optic communication — An optical fiber junction box. The yellow cables are single mode fibers; the orange and blue cables are multi mode fibers: 50/125 µm OM2 and 50/125 µm OM3 fibers respectively. Fiber optic communication is a method of transmitting information from …

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  • 8Optical rectification — Electro optic rectification (EOR) (also referred to as optical rectification) is a non linear optical process which consists in the generation of a quasi DC polarization in a non linear medium at the passage of an intense optical beam. For… …

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  • 9List of electronics topics — Alphabetization has been neglected in some parts of this article (the b section in particular). You can help by editing it. This is a list of communications, computers, electronic circuits, fiberoptics, microelectronics, medical electronics,… …

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