| Issue |
EPL
Volume 94, Number 4, May 2011
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| Article Number | 44005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/94/44005 | |
| Published online | 18 May 2011 | |
Observation of the inverse Cotton-Mouton effect
1
Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (UPR 3228, CNRS-INSA-UJF-UPS) F-31400 Toulouse Cedex, France, EU
2
Université de Toulouse, UPS, Laboratoire Collisions Agrégats Réactivité, IRSAMC F-31062 Toulouse, France, EU
3
CNRS, UMR 5589 - F-31062 Toulouse, France, EU
Received:
8
November
2011
Accepted:
14
April
2011
We report the observation of the inverse Cotton-Mouton effect (ICME) i.e. a magnetization induced in a medium by non-resonant linearly polarized light propagating in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. We present a detailed study of the ICME in a TGG crystal showing the dependence of the measured effect on the light intensity, the optical polarization, and on the external magnetic field. We derive a relation between the Cotton-Mouton and inverse Cotton-Mouton effects that is roughly in agreement with existing experimental data. Our results open the way to applications of the ICME in optical devices.
PACS: 42.65.-k – Nonlinear optics / 32.10.Dk – Electric and magnetic moments, polarizabilities
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