Keywords
electro-optic effects
optical activity
dichroism
How to Cite
Abstract
This works presents an extended theoretical analysis of the response of experimental setup to an applied electric field during measurements of electro-optic coefficients in optically active liquids using an optical polarimetric technique. The analysis includes liquids belonging to ꝏꝏ, ꝏ2 and ꝏ Curie symmetry groups and the following phenomena were taken into account: natural optical activity, natural linear birefringence, dichroism, and the effects induced by an applied electric field – linear and quadratic electro-optic effects and linear and quadratic electrogyration. The presented example concerns numerical error analysis for measurement of the quadratic electro-optic effect in castor oil, which exhibits the symmetry ꝏ2 between a pair of plane-parallel electrodes.
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