Cotton-Mouton effect

Cotton-Mouton effect

The Cotton-Mouton effect refers to the double refraction of light in a liquid in the presence of a constant transverse magnetic field. It is much stronger than the Voigt effect. The electric analog is the Kerr effect.

It was discovered in 1907 by Aimé Cotton and Henri Mouton.

ee also

Cotton effect


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