Determination of Olive Oil Kerr Constant for Electro Optical Applications

Abstract

Electro optics effects are important branches of nonlinear optics. In this research olive oil has been chosen to study its electro optical properties. Olive oil as an organic compound has a centro symmetric molecular structure which means that it has quadratic electro optical properties represented by Kerr effect. These electro optical properties such as transmittance versus applied voltage and birefringence versus the square value of the applied electric field were measured. These properties are obtained for the two types of olive oil (virgin and refined) by analyzing of these properties, the Kerr constant and Kerr coefficient for two types of olive oil have been found at different wavelengths.

Keywords

• Kerr constant
• Chromatic dispersion
• GVD
• Nonlinear coefficient
• Optical properties
• Olive oil