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Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Magneto-Optics

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 516-0944/02
Abbreviation MO
Course title Magneto-Optics
Credits 10
Coordinating department Institute of Physics
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Mgr. Kamil Postava

Subject syllabus

I. Physical principle of magneto-optical phenomena
First reflection, transmission and emission magnetooptical phenomena (Kerr phenomena
Faraday, Voightův phenomenon Zeeman effects)
Second microscopic models of magneto-optical phenomena, classical oscillator model,
semiclassical model, the summation session
Third permittivity tensor symmetry, linear, quadratic magneto
tensor in crystals with reduced symmetry
4th modeling of magneto-optical phenomena, matrix formalism, magneto
angles
5th Nonlinear Magnetic-, sensitivity to symmetry surfaces, the second generation
harmonic

II. Experimental configuration magneto
6th method of crossed polarizers, methods magneto microscopy
differential method
7th modulation method, modulation method ellipticity, azimuth modulation
the reset method
8th separation method magneto-optical phenomena, quadratic effect phenomena
depth sensitivity magneto-optical methods
9th Magneto-optical waveguide phenomena

III. Application of magneto-optical phenomena
10th studies of the magnetic properties of thin films and nanostructures,
Magneto-optical vector magnetometry, accrued Magneto
magnetometry
11th Magneto-optical microscopy observation of magnetic domains, near-field
Magneto-optical microscopy
12th magnetooptical recording information, MO disks
13th magneto-optical isolators and circulators, magnetofonické crystals
integrated insulator, magnetic phenomena in waveguides
14th magneto-optical sensors

Literature

1. A. K. Zvezdin and V. A. Kotov, Modern magnetooptics and magnetic materials,
Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997
2. M. Mansuripur, The physical principles of magneto-optical recording,
Cambridge University Press, 1995
3. R. M. A. Azzam, N. M. Bashara, Ellipsometry and polarized light, North-
Holland, Amsterdam 1977.
4. P.Yeh, Optical waves in layered media, Wiley, 1988.
5. S. Sugano and N. Kojima, Magneto-optics, Springer, 1999.

Advised literature

1. V. V. Eremenko, Magneto-optics and spectroscopy of antiferromagnets,
Springer, 1992.
2. K. H. Bennemann, Non-linear optics in metals, Clarendon Pr, 1998.