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Electrically induced birefringence that is proportional to the square of the electric field. When a substance (especially a liquid or a gas) is...
Magnetooptic Kerr effect (in 'Magnetooptics' article)
This deals with the changes that are produced in the optical properties of a reflecting surface of a ferromagnetic substance when the substance is mag


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Kerr shutter. The arrows designate a light beam propagating through the cell. Polarizer axes are parallel to x and y axes; electric field of cell is parallel to x' or y' axis. (After A. Yariv, Quantum Electronics, John Wiley and Sons, 1967)
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