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
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.