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Magnetooptics - NOOE071
Title: Magnetooptika
Guaranteed by: Department of Chemical Physics and Optics (32-KCHFO)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2020
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 5
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: RNDr. Eva Schmoranzerová, Ph.D.
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Ostatnický, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: T_KCHFO (26.03.2014)
Magnetooptics deals with the phenomena arising when light interacts with a material subject to magnetic field, and thus it represents a powerful tool for investigation of both magnetic ordering and microscopic structure of the material. This lecture provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental approaches utilized in magnetooptics, with a main focus on their practical applications.
Aim of the course -
Last update: T_KCHFO (26.03.2014)

This lecture aims to familiarize students both with experimental and theoretical methods used in magnetooptics.

In the first part of the course a basic electromagnetic approach to the magnetooptical (MO) effects in a matrix formalism will be presented, together with its application for calculation of the magnetooptical parameters. In the second part of the lecture a microscopic origin of the MO effects will be outlined and various materials for the MO applications will be discussed. The third part of the course will deal with MO experimental techniques.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: RNDr. Eva Schmoranzerová, Ph.D. (11.06.2019)

Practical lesson conditions: laboratory class + final report

Exam conditions: written and oral part

Finishing of practical lessons is independent of the oral and written exam.

Literature -
Last update: T_KCHFO (26.03.2014)

A. K. Zvezdin, V. A. Kotov, Modern Magnetooptics and Magnetooptical Materials, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol/Philadelphia 1997.

S. Sugano, N. Kojima, Magneto-Optics, Springer, 2000

R. M. A. Azzam, N. M. Bashara, Ellipsometry and Polarized Light, North-Holland, Amsterdam / New York / Oxford 1977.

S. Višňovský, Optics in Magnetic Multilayers and Nanostructures, Taylor&Francis, Boca Raton/New York/Amsterdam 2006.

A. Kirilyuk, A. V. Kimel, T. Rasing, Ultrafast Optical Manipulation of Magnetic Order, Reviews of Modern Physics 82, 2731 (2010)

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: RNDr. Eva Schmoranzerová, Ph.D. (11.06.2019)

Requirements for written exam:

  • analytical solutions of fundamental magneto-optical effect by wave-optics formalism (Yeh, Jones)
  • applications to simple magneto-optical setups

Requirements for oral exam:

  • experimental methods of magneto-optics
  • magneto-optical materials
  • fundamentals of thery of magneto-optical effects

Syllabus -
Last update: T_KCHFO (26.03.2014)

1. Description of light states and propagation of light through optical systems. Polarization and space modulation of light, Jones matrix formalism.

2.Interaction of light with matter. Dispersion properties of materials.Light propagation in anisotropic media. Magnetooptics.

3. Overview of magnetooptical (MO) effects. Matrix approach to MO effects description - electromagnetic theory of light propagation in layers (multilayers), Yeh formalism.

4. Examples of magnetooptical calculations - Kerr and Faraday effect in matrix formalism, general analytical formulae. Basics of MO spectra modelling.

5. Microscopic origin of MO effects. Lorenz classical theory, basics of quantum-mechanical description.

6. MO materials and their applications.

7. Experimental methods of MO spectroscopy. Fundamentals of ellipsometry. MO imaging methods.

8. Time-resolved MO measurements. Methods of non-linear magnetooptics.

9. Excursions.

 
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