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Fabrication Procedures and Birefringence Measurements for Designing Magnetically Responsive Lanthanide Ion Chelating Phospholipid Assemblies
Published on: January 3, 2018
Observation of magnetoelectric jones birefringence
1Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Max Planck Institut fur Festkorperforschung/CNRS, BP 166, F-38042 Grenoble, France and Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Hochschulstrasse 12, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany.
Abstract:
In 1948, Jones showed that uniaxial media can in general show four different fundamental optical phenomena, each of which can appear in refraction and absorption. Three of these are well established: isotropic refraction and absorption, linear birefringence and dichroism, and circular birefringence and dichroism. The fourth effect, predicted by Jones, has remained unobserved so far. In this Letter, we report the first experimental observation of this missing fourth, so-called Jones effect, as an additional, tilted linear birefringence. In our experiments, this effect was induced in liquids by parallel external magnetic and electric fields perpendicular to the propagation direction.
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