Observation of the Inverse Cotton-Mouton Effect

Andrei Ben-Amar Baranga (1) , Rémy Battesti (1) , Mathilde Hugbart (1) , Carlo Rizzo (1) , Rikken G.L.J.A. (1)

1 LNCMI-T - Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses - Toulouse

We report the investigation of the Inverse Cotton-Mouton Effect (ICME) i.e. the magnetization induced in a medium by 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 laser power density and polarization, and on the static external magnetic field. We finally derive a relation between the Cotton-Mouton and Inverse Cotton-Mouton effects which is experimentally confirmed.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Andrei Ben-Amar Baranga, Rémy Battesti, Mathilde Hugbart, Carlo Rizzo, Rikken G.L.J.A.. Observation of the Inverse Cotton-Mouton Effect. 2010. ⟨hal-00518059v1⟩