Large Faraday rotation of resonant light in a cold atomic cloud
Atomic Physics
2009-11-07 v1 Optics
Abstract
We experimentally studied the Faraday rotation of resonant light in an optically-thick cloud of laser-cooled rubidium atoms. Measurements yield a large Verdet constant in the range of 200 000 degrees/T/mm and a maximal polarization rotation of 150 degrees. A complete analysis of the polarization state of the transmitted light was necessary to account for the role of the probe laser's spectrum.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0103045,
title = {Large Faraday rotation of resonant light in a cold atomic cloud},
author = {G. Labeyrie and C. Miniatura and R. Kaiser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0103045},
year = {2009}
}