The results of investigation of the magneto-optical effects of Faraday and Cotton-Mouton in organic liquids are presented. It is shown that the polarization characteristics of radiation change when it pass through benzene, toluene, kerosene and petrol of several grades. The rotation of the plane of polarization occurs when the direction of induction of the magnetic field along the direction of propagation of light. Linearly polarized light acquires ellipticity when radiation propagates perpendicular to the direction of magnetic field induction. The Faraday and Cotton-Mouton constants of the substances have been determined for radiation with wavelengths of 650 nm, 532 nm and 405 nm.
We consider the oblique incidence of optical pulses of a special shape: triangular, Gaussian, meander, and also a giant laser pulse onto a flat anisotropic inhomogeneous structure with dispersion. The electromagnetic wave has an elliptical polarization; the direction of the optical axis of the anisotropic uniaxial medium changes with distance from the interface. The change in the shape of the envelopes of pulses of ordinary and extraordinary waves is presented during propagation in an anisotropic inhomogeneous medium with dispersion.
The problem of reflection of a plane electromagnetic wave incident on a flat non-uniform anisotropic nematic structure is considered. The angular spectra of the energy reflection coefficients and the ellipsometric parameters of the reflected light are calculated using the matrix solution WKB. For comparison, the calculation was performed using the widely used 2 * 2 matrix method in a model of a layered medium. The advantages and limitations of the two methods are shown.
The dependence of the ellipsometric parameters and the coefficients of the reflection matrix on the torsion angle of an inhomogeneous gyrotropic medium is investigated. An oblique incidence of light is considered. For the calculation, a solution is used in the form of a 4 × 4 matrix obtained by the Ventcel-Kramers-Brillouin method.
The reflection of linearly polarized light at the boundary of a plane anisotropic layer is considered, the optical axis of which is located arbitrarily in relation to the plane of incidence. Matrix amplitude coefficients of reflection and transmission of light by a plane anisotropic uniaxial layer are obtained, the energy coefficients of reflection, as well as ellipsometric parameters of the reflected light, and also their angular spectra.
In the paper, an oblique incidence of a plane electromagnetic wave on a planar magnetically anisotropic inhomogeneous layer is considered. We consider the case when all the components of the magnetic permeability tensor are non zero and vary with distance from the interface of media. The WKB method gives a matrix 4 × 4 solution for the projections of the electromagnetic wave fields during its propagation. The dependence of the cross-polarized components on the orientation of the anisotropic medium relative to the plane of incidence of the medium is analyzed.
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