Photonic hall effect in absorbing media
We describe an experimental and theoretical study of the effect of optical absorption on the photonic Hall effect in a passive matrix containing magnetoactive scatterers. We find that for the case of absorbing scatterers, the magnetotransverse light current changes sign and increases with increasing absorption. Good agreement is obtained with numerical calculations. For the case of an absorbing matrix, no effect was observed.
Wiebel
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Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Max Planck Institut fur Festkorperforschung, CNRS, Boite Postale 166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France and Fakultat fur Physik, Universitat Konstanz, Universitatsstrasse 10, 78457 Konstanz, Germa.
Sparenberg
A
Rikken
GL
Lacoste
D
van Tiggelen BA