English Explanatory Dictionary

Pockels effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An effect that changes or produces birefringence in an optical medium induced by electric field.

Word forms

Pockels effect Pockels effects

Etymology

Named after Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels.

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