• Kerr and Faraday magneto-optical effects, microscopic origin
• Linear and quadratic Kerr effects, longitudinal, transversal and polar magnetization components
• Magneto-optical vector magnetometry, intensity differential magneto-optical method
• Magneto-optical Kerr microscopy, observation of magnetic domains
• Spectroscopic magneto-optical ellipsometry
• Modelling of magneto-optical effects in thin films
• Applications – data recording, magneto-optical traps, isolators, sensors
Literature
A. K. Zvezdin and V. A. Kotov, Modern magnetooptics and magnetic materials, Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997
M. Mansuripur, The physical principles of magneto-optical recording, Cambridge University Press, 1995
R. M. A. Azzam, N. M. Bashara, Ellipsometry and polarized light, North- Holland, Amsterdam 1977.
P.Yeh, Optical waves in layered media, Wiley, 1988. 5. S. Sugano and N. Kojima, Magneto-optics, Springer, 1999.
Advised literature
V. V. Eremenko, Magneto-optics and spectroscopy of antiferromagnets, Springer, 1992. 2. K. H. Bennemann, Non-linear optics in metals, Clarendon Pr, 1998.
Papers in scientific literature.