New magneto-optical effects in anisotropic crystals and methods for their experimental study

Mikhail A. Novikov; A. A. Khyshov; V. V. Ivanov; Dmitry V. Shabanov

doi:10.1117/12.340076

28 January 1999 New magneto-optical effects in anisotropic crystals and methods for their experimental study

Mikhail A. Novikov, A. A. Khyshov, V. V. Ivanov, Dmitry V. Shabanov

Proceedings Volume 3733, ICONO '98: Nonlinear Optical Phenomena and Coherent Optics in Information Technologies; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.340076
Event: ICONO '98: Laser Spectroscopy and Optical Diagnostics: Novel Trends and Applications in Laser Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biomedicine, 1998, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract

The new theoretical and experimental studies of magnetochiral optical effects in anisotropic crystals in external magnetic fields and of related magneto-optical effects are reviewed. Magnetochiral effects arise when temporal and parity symmetries are simultaneously violated. The most interesting of magnetochiral effects is magneto- optical nonreciprocal linear birefringence, which is the difference of refractive indices for counterrunning eigenwaves proportional to external magnetic field. New highly sensitive methods for experimental study of nonreciprocal linear birefringence independent of optical losses in sample crystals. To measure the anisotropy of nonreceiprocal linear birefringence the two-pass optical scheme, in which the sample crystal is placed between two quarterwave plates is developed. With this scheme, the anistropy of nonreciprocal linear birefringence in LiIO₃ is measured at Ar-Kr laser lines. Also, the new accurate method for measurement of Faraday effect in anisotropic crystals in proposed, which is based on spatial segregation of eigenwaves in wedge-shaped samples. In this method, parasitic effects of natural linear anisotropy do not affect the measurements.

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Mikhail A. Novikov, A. A. Khyshov, V. V. Ivanov, and Dmitry V. Shabanov "New magneto-optical effects in anisotropic crystals and methods for their experimental study", Proc. SPIE 3733, ICONO '98: Nonlinear Optical Phenomena and Coherent Optics in Information Technologies, (28 January 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.340076

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