Optics of a Faraday-active Mie sphere

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作者
Lacoste, D
van Tiggelen, BA
Rikken, GLJA
Sparenberg, A
机构
[1] Lab Phys & Modelisat Milieux Condenses, F-38042 Grenoble 9, France
[2] Max Planck Inst Festkorperforsch, CNRS, Grenoble High Magnet Field Lab, F-38042 Grenoble, France
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JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION | 1998年 / 15卷 / 06期
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10.1364/JOSAA.15.001636
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We present an exact calculation for the scattering of light from a single sphere made of a Faraday-active material into first order of the external magnetic field. When the size of the sphere is small compared with the wavelength, the known T matrix for a magneto-active Rayleigh scatterer is found. We address the issue of whether there is a so-called photonic Hall effect-a magneto-transverse anisotropy in light scattering-for one Mie scatterer. In the Limit of geometrical optics, we compare our results with the Faraday effect in a Fabry-Perot etalon. (C) 1998 Optical Society of America.
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页码:1636 / 1642
页数:7
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