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Faraday rotation of a laser field induced by a single atom is demonstrated by tightly focussing a linearly polarized laser beam onto a laser-cooled ion held in a harmonic Paul trap. The polarization rotation signal is further used to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 G. Hétet , L. Slodička , N. Röck , R. Blatt

The Faraday effect, caused by a magnetic-field-induced change in the optical properties, takes place in a vast variety of systems from a single atomic layer of graphenes to huge galaxies. Currently, it plays a pivot role in many…

Paramagnetic Faraday rotation is a powerful technique for atom sensing widely used in quantum non-demolition measurements, fundamental symmetry tests, and other precision measurements. We demonstrate the use of a multi-pass optical cell for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-08-29 S. Li , P. Vachaspati , D. Sheng , N. Dural , M. V. Romalis

We propose and demonstrate cavity-enhanced polarization-rotation measurement as a means to detect magnetic effects in transparent media with greater sensitivity at equal optical disturbance to the medium. Using the Jones calculus, we…

Faraday rotation has become a powerful tool in a large variety of physics applications. Most prominently, Faraday rotation can be used in precision magnetometry. Here we report the first measurements of gyromagnetic Faraday rotation on a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Josh Abney , Mark Broering , Murchhana Roy , Wolfgang Korsch

Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) Synthesis, as a method for analyzing multi-channel observations of polarized radio emission to investigate galactic magnetic fields structures, requires the definition of complex polarized intensity in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Frick , D. Sokoloff , R. Stepanov , R. Beck

The Faraday Rotation Ammeter (FRA) experiment takes advantage of the Faraday Effect in order to measure the current density in a given environment. The Faraday Effect explains a rotation of a polarized electric field as it propagates…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-01-03 Jason Sisk

A solid density target irradiated by a high-intensity laser pulse can become relativistically transparent, which then allows it to sustain an extremely strong laser-driven longitudinal electron current. The current generates a filament with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Tao Wang , Toma Toncian , Mingsheng Wei , Alexey Arefiev

The magnetosphere of a pulsar is composed of relativistic plasmas streaming along the magnetic field lines and corotating with the pulsar. We study the intrinsic Faraday rotation in the pulsar magnetosphere by critically examining the wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chen Wang , Jinlin Han , Dong Lai

Faraday tomography is a powerful method to diagnose polarizations and Faraday rotations along the line of sight. The quality of Faraday tomography is, however, limited by several conditions. Recently, it is reported that Faraday tomography…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-26 Kohei Kumazaki , Takuya Akahori , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Tomoharu Kurayama , Keitaro Takahashi

A collective, macroscopic signature to detect radiation friction in laser-plasma experiments is proposed. In the interaction of superintense circularly polarized laser pulses with high density targets, the effective dissipation due to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 T. V. Liseykina , S. V. Popruzhenko , A. Macchi

The technique of Faraday tomography is a key tool for the study of magnetised plasmas in the new era of broadband radio polarisation observations. In particular, observations at metre-wavelengths provide significantly better Faraday depth…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-03 Shane P. O'Sullivan , M. Brüggen , C. L. Van Eck , M. J. Hardcastle , M. Haverkorn , T. W. Shimwell , C. Tasse , V. Vacca , C. Horellou , G. Heald

Faraday Rotation-Conversion is the simultaneous rotation of all three Stokes polarization parameters $Q$, $U$, $V$ as an electromagnetic wave propagates through a magnetized plasma. In this regime the Faraday plasma screen is characterized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Andrei Gruzinov , Yuri Levin

We investigate the rotation of the polarization of a light ray propagating in the gravitational field of a circularly polarized laser beam. The rotation consists of a reciprocal part due to gravitational optical activity, and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Fabienne Schneiter , Dennis Rätzel , Daniel Braun

The standard formula for the rotation measure, RM, which determines the position angle, $\psi={\rm RM}\lambda^2$, due to Faraday rotation, includes contributions only from the portions of the ray path where the natural modes of the plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. B. Melrose

The gyrotropic properties of a rotating magnetized plasma are derived analytically. Mechanical rotation leads to a new cutoff for wave propagation along the magnetic field and polarization rotation above this cutoff is the sum of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 R. Gueroult , J. -M. Rax , N. J. Fisch

The phenomenon of Faraday rotation of linearly polarized synchrotron emission in a magneto-ionized medium has been understood and studied for decades. But since the sense of the rotation itself is irrelevant in most contexts, some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 K. Ferrière , J. L. West , T. R. Jaffe

We report the experimental observation of the rotation of the polarization plane of light propagating in a gas of fast-spinning molecules (molecular super-rotors). In the observed effect, related to Fermi's prediction of "polarization drag"…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Alexander A. Milner , Uri Steinitz , Ilya Sh. Averbukh , Valery Milner

In regions with strongly varying electron density, radio emission can be magnified significantly by plasma lensing. In the presence of magnetic fields, magnification in time and frequency will be different for two circular polarizations. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Dongzi Li , Fang Xi Lin , Robert Main , Ue-Li Pen , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , I-Sheng Yang

Faraday rotation of the polarization plane in magnetized thermal plasma provides one of the most efficient methods to deduce regular magnetic fields from radio astronomical observations. Since the Faraday rotation measure RM is proportional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rainer Beck , Anvar Shukurov , Dmitry Sokoloff , Richard Wielebinski
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