Edited by two pioneers of magneto-optics, this book is designed to provide graduate students and researchers with an introductory state-of-the-art review of recent developments in this subject. The field encompasses important areas in solid-state physics, chemical physics and electrical engineering. The book deals with optical spectroscopy of paramagnetic, antiferromagnetic, and ferromagnetic materials, photo-induced magnetism and their applications to opto-electronics.

Excerpt from Researches in Magneto-Optics: With Special Reference to the Magnetic Resolution of Spectrum Lines In the spring of 1906 I had the honour to deliver before the Royal Institution of Great Britain a lecture "On Recent Progress in Magneto-optics." A distinguished astronomer told me two or three years later that he had read the account of this lecture several times over. I have no doubt that his remark was meant as a compliment, but it signified also a too condensed exposition of the subject. At about the same time came the proposal of the Editor of this series of monographs to supplement my discourse and to give an expansion of it in book form. Consideration of the two communications, both acting in the same direction, easily induced me to prepare the present volume. A few historical facts in the history of the relations between magnetism and light may be recalled here. Faraday's fundamental discovery of the magnetic rotation of the plane of polarisation of light propagated parallel to the magnetic field dates from 1845. In 1877 Kerr showed that a magnetisation of an iron mirror modifies the properties of incident plane polarised light. In 1896 and 1897 the present author discovered the resolution of the spectrum lines of a source of light when under the influence of strong magnetic fields. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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