COHERENT AND INCOHERENT PUMP-PROBE SPECULAR INVERSE FARADAY-EFFECT INMEDIA WITH INSTANTANEOUS NONLINEARITY

Citation
Yp. Svirko et Ni. Zheludev, COHERENT AND INCOHERENT PUMP-PROBE SPECULAR INVERSE FARADAY-EFFECT INMEDIA WITH INSTANTANEOUS NONLINEARITY, Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics, 11(8), 1994, pp. 1388-1393
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
ISSN journal
07403224
Volume
11
Issue
8
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1388 - 1393
Database
ISI
SICI code
0740-3224(1994)11:8<1388:CAIPSI>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
A wave theory of the specular inverse Faraday effect (SIFE) that revea ls the existence of coherent and incoherent terms of the phenomenon is presented. Recovery of various cubic nonlinear tensor components from the SIFE observation in transparent and opaque materials is examined.