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There is evidence that magnetized material along the line of sight to distant quasars is detectable in the polarization properties of the background sources. The polarization properties appear to be correlated with the presence of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-05 Kwang Seong Kim , Simon J. Lilly , Francesco Miniati , M. L. Bernet , Rainer Beck , S. P. O'Sullivan , B. M. Gaensler

Light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has attractive applications in the fields of precise optical measurements and high capacity optical communications. We study the rotation of a light beam propagating in warm 87Rb atomic vapor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 Shuai Shi , Dong-Sheng Ding , Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Yan Li , Wei Zhang , Bao-Sen Shi

Considering the spatially separated polarization radiation and Faraday rotation regions to simulate complex interstellar media, we study synchrotron polarization gradient techniques' measurement capabilities. We explore how to trace the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Ru-Yue Wang , Jian-Fu Zhang , Alex Lazarian , Hua-Ping Xiao , Fu-Yuan Xiang

The possibility of determining the magnitude of neutral atom density in hydrogen plasma was investigated using Paschen-Back effect and resonant Faraday rotation of the polarization plane of light by residual neutral atoms in the plasma. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Koryun Oganesyan , Krzysztof Dzierzega , Ashot Gevorgyan , Peter Kopcansky

We demonstrate a light-shot-noise-limited magnetometer based on the Faraday effect in a hot unpolarized ensemble of rubidium atoms. By using off-resonant, polarization-squeezed probe light, we improve the sensitivity of the magnetometer by…

The effects of a radiation field (RF) on the interaction process of a relativistic electron beam (REB) with an electron plasma are investigated. The stopping power of the test electron averaged with a period of the RF has been calculated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-03-06 Hrachya B. Nersisyan , Claude Deutsch

It is generally believed that the magneto-optical Faraday effect appears in the the bulk of a magnetic material and its sign is fully determined by the sign of the non-diagonal permittivity element. Here we reveal an additional contribution…

With ever increasing availability of terahertz fields, it is important to find suitable detection techniques without compromising the measured dynamic range. Electro-optic terahertz sampling techniques, which are commonly used to detect…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Gregory Bell , Michael Hilke

Polarized neutrons are a powerful probe to investigate magnetism in condensed matter on length scales from single atomic distances to micrometers. With the ongoing advancement of neutron optics, that allow to transport beams with increased…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-02 Jochen Stahn , Artur Glavic

Context. The existence of magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is largely unconstrained. Their detection is important as magnetic fields can have a significant impact on the evolution of the CGM and, in turn, the fields can…

The relationship between magnetization and light has been the subject of intensive research for the past century, focusing on the impact of magnetic moments on light polarization. Conversely, the manipulation of magnetism through polarized…

We consider optical properties of a gas of molecules that are brought to fast unidirectional spinning by a pulsed laser field. It is shown that a circularly polarized probe light passing through the medium inverts its polarization…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Uri Steinitz , Yehiam Prior , Ilya Sh. Averbukh

Faraday rotation of polarised background sources is a unique probe of astrophysical magnetic fields in a diverse range of foreground objects. However, to understand the properties of the polarised sources themselves and of depolarising…

Faraday rotation measure at radio wavelengths is commonly used to diagnose large-scale magnetic fields. It is argued that the length-scales on which magnetic fields vary in large-scale diffuse astrophysical media can be inferred from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 Alvina Y. L. On , Jennifer Y. H. Chan , Kinwah Wu , Curtis J. Saxton , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi

Our aim in this proposal is by using the Faraday's law of induction as a simple lecture demonstration to measure the Earth's magnetic field (B). This will also enable the students to learn about how electric power is generated from the…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Akoglu , M. Halilsoy , S. Habib Mazharimousavi

Faraday rotation measure (RM) synthesis is an important tool to study and analyze galactic and extra-galactic magnetic fields. Since there is a Fourier relation between the Faraday dispersion function and the polarized radio emission, full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Feng Li , Shea Brown , Tim J. Cornwell , Frank de Hoog

A laser diffraction experiment was conducted to study light propagation in air. The experiment is easy to reproduce and it is based on simple optical principles. Two optical sensors (segmented photo-diodes) are used for measuring the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. E. Navia , C. R. A. Augusto , D. F. Franceschini , M. B. Robba , K. H. Tsui

We study the interaction of a weak probe field, having two orthogonally polarized components, with an optically dense medium of four-level atoms in a tripod configuration. In the presence of a coherent driving laser, electromagnetically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Petrosyan , Yuri P. Malakyan

We present maps of the sign of the Faraday Rotation measure [sign(RM)] obtained from multi-frequency radio observations on the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Many of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) considered have B-field structures with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Andrea Reichstein , Denise Gabuzda

A joint action of depth and bandwidth depolarization in the interstellar medium is considered using a model of N homogeneous synchrotron layers with Faraday rotation. The bandwidth depolarization can be used in multifrequency polarimetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. N. Vinyajkin