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Polarized light in an anisotropic medium versus spin in a magnetic field
V. S. Zapasskii, G. G. Kozlov All-Russian Research Center "S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute", St. Petersburg
Abstract:
The analogy between polarization optics effects and the dynamics of a spin in a magnetic field is analyzed based on the fact that the Bloch equation for a spin in a magnetic field is formally identical to the evolution equation for the quasi-spin vector of a light propagating in an optically anisotropic medium. Among the effects discussed within this framework are light polarization beats in a birefringent medium; optical activity suppression in the media with linear birefringence; suppression of linear birefringence in the media with spatially modulated gyration; 'adiabatic' transformation of light polarization in media of smoothly varying anisotropy, and two- and three-pulse polarization echoes.
Received: January 13, 1999
Citation:
V. S. Zapasskii, G. G. Kozlov, “Polarized light in an anisotropic medium versus spin in a magnetic field”, UFN, 169:8 (1999), 909–915; Phys. Usp., 42:8 (1999), 817–822
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