Magneto-optic activity

Magneto-optical activity results from the asymmetry in the indices of refraction for the left (—) and right (+) hand polarised circular components of a light wave induced in a medium by a longitudinal B field. It subdivides as shown in table 4.2. 

Table 4.2. Magneto-optical activity (see [168] for details of notation).

Gg. 99. Schernatic representation of a disc suitable for magneto-optical recording, where the magneto-optically active constituent on top of the disc consists of amorphous R-3d alloys. 

Cholesteric Liquid Crystals with Magneto-Optic Activity ... 

Note that if y = 0 (no magneto-optic activity). Equation (4.54) returns to the typical cholesteric liqnid crystal dispersion relation cf. Equation (4.33). As we will see, the term jk qo in Eqnation (4.54) gives rise to nomeciprocal optical properties. 

Bita, I., and E. L. Thomas. 2005. Structurally chiral photonic crystals with magneto-optic activity Indirect photonic bandgaps, negative refraction, and superprism effect. J. Opt Soc. Am. B. 22 1199-1210. 

In this paper we will consider the approach towards a pure diffusive regime when incident linear polarized light is multiply scattered by a magneto-optically active random medium. Motivated by recent experiments we are interested in the intensity along the jc-axis where E is the electric field as a function of the magnetic field B, The... 

In conclusion, we have developed a Monte Carlo simulation in order to obtain the intensity correlation function in the multiple scattering regime in a magneto-optically active medium. For the diffusion regime, the results predicted by the simple stochastic theory are qualitatively verified. In the intermediate regime, the correlation function can be described by the one-dimensional random walk model, which explains the origin of the unexpected oscillations of the correlation function. 

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