DOMAIN EFFECTS IN FARADAY-EFFECT SENSORS BASED ON IRON GARNETS

被引:8
作者
DEETER, MN
机构
[1] Optoelectronics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO
来源
APPLIED OPTICS | 1995年 / 34卷 / 04期
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10.1364/AO.34.000655
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O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Domain-induced diffraction effects produced by two iron garnet thick films and two bulk crystals are compared. The thick films, characterized by a serpentine magnetic domain structure, produced nonlinear response functions; this is in qualitative agreement with a one-dimensional diffraction model. Bulk iron garnet crystals, which exhibited a complex three-dimensional domain structure, produced qualitatively similar effects that diminished with increasing crystal length. Differential signal processing resulted in a linear signal for the thick films and a primarily sinusoidal response for the bulk crystals.
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