A crystalline material with a high electro-optic coefficient, capable of operating at short wavelengths, with applications in laser, optical disc, printing and microwave systems.

An electro-optic modulator (EOM) is a device used to modulate the amplitude, phase, or polarization of light waves using an...

A bomb guided to its target by some form of electro-optical system.

That voltage required across a Pockels, Kerr or other electro-optic light modulator to retard one polarization electrical...

An optically bistable device used for photonic switching, constructed of a multiple quantum well biased by an external...

An electro-optic system using, in general form, an evacuated glass envelope with a semitransparent photocathode at one end...

Optical fiber optic switches are devices used in optical fiber communication systems to selectively route optical signals...

Material used to integrate photoconductors into electro-optical systems. It should provide low resistance to the flow of...

Conductor element for use in integrated electro-optic systems that measures current flowing through it.

A device used to control or block a light beam by means of the Kerr electro-optical effect.

The process of aligning the crystallites in a piezoelectric material by placing a large DC field across the element at an...

1. The branch of physics that deals with the use of electrical energy to create or manipulate light waves, generally by...

Pertaining to a device that responds to optical power, emits or modifies optical radiation, or utilizes optical radiation...

The spectroscopic analysis of interference patterns using an electronic imaging tube with a Fabry-Perot interferometer to...

An electro-optical infrared tracker consisting of a beamsplitter, an illuminating source, an image dissector tube and an...

A device that detects radiation by utilizing the influence of light in forming an electrical signal. It may be a phototube;...

A material having refractive indices that can be altered by an applied electric field.

Any testing method for materials and components that does not damage or destroy the test sample. Some of the methods used...

In an interlaced scanning electro-optical system such as television, the system resolution will be less than the number of...

The change in the refractive index of a material under the influence of an electrical field.

In optics, the Pockels effect refers to the phenomenon where the refractive index of a material changes in response to an...

A Pockels cell, also known as an electro-optic modulator, is an optical device used to control the polarization of light by...

A light valve that uses a crystal as the control layer medium and that operates on the principle of the electro-optic effect.

A radar system that uses electro-optic rather than microwave instrumentation and methods to perform its acquisition and...

A transistor designed to respond to either light or electrical signals.

A crystalline ferroelectric material used primarily as a substrate and an active medium for thin-film optical modulators and...

A plate of electro-optical material that serves to rotate the plane of polarization of a light beam.

An optical gate typically refers to a device or system that controls the transmission of light, allowing it to pass through...

The effect whereby a light beam is deflected by a birefringent prism when its polarization is changed by voltage applied to...

A device to modulate spatially a collimated coherent beam of light with input data in optical data processing. It uses a...

The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The...

An etalon is an optical device that consists of two parallel reflecting surfaces separated by a precise and known distance....

Optical materials refer to substances or compounds specifically chosen for their optical properties and used in the...

A device that is designed to modulate a beam of light, usually from a laser source, by acting upon the beam directly. The...

A device used to control or block a light beam by means of the Kerr electro-optical effect, and other electro-optic devices...