Abstract
Many practical modulator materials include combinations of electrooptically induced birefringence, optical activity, and/or Faraday rotation. Thus there exists a need for a procedure to design and analyze devices fabricated with materials exhibiting any or all of these effects. A simple method employing an extension of the general Jacobi method is introduced for determining properties of the two allowed eigenpolarizations for an arbitrary direction of propagation in a general lossless, electrooptic, and gyrotropic medium.
© 1988 Optical Society of America
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