Voigt Effect -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Voigt Effect

The production of birefringence when a constant magnetic field is applied to a transparent medium perpendicular to the direction of propagation. It occurs in vapors, and is not as strong as the Cotton-Mouton effect.