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Cryogenic temperature characteristics of Verdet constant on terbium gallium garnet ceramics
Optics Express
|June 24, 2009
Abstract:
As the first demonstration of Faraday effect in a TGG ceramics, its Verdet constant at 1053 nm is evaluated to be 36.4 rad/Tm at room temperature which is same as that of the single crystal. In addition, the temperature dependence of Verdet constant is obtained experimentally. At liquid helium temperature, it is 87 times greater than that at room temperature.
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