Syllabus
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.
Annotation
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.