Ramseyfication of the Resonant Nonlinear Faraday Effect

X. Chen, V. L. Telegdi, Antoine Weis

Aram M. Badalyan, B. Glushko, M. E. Movsesyan

T. Ya. Karagodova, Alexandr A. Zakharov, A. V. Kolpakov

Masao Hirano

This letter deals with observations and a study on optical bistability in a thin Fabry-Perot resonator made of a Faraday medium. Using a commercial TbBi-garnet film as the Fabry-Perot resonator, it was established experimentally that the resonator represents an optical bistability, by treating both the thermally induced nonlinear effect and the Faraday effect, and that its characteristics are controlled by an external magnetic field through the Faraday effect.

B. Schuh, S. I. Kanorsky, Antoine Weis +1 more

Irina V. Novikova, Andrey B. Matsko, Vladimir A. Sautenkov +3 more

The frequency of the dark resonance in coherent population trapping experiments has been measured as a function of the degree of ellipticity and the intensity of the probe light. The results have been used to find the quantum limit of sensitivity of an optical magnetometer based on the nonlinear Faraday effect.