Small optical magnetic-field sensor that uses rare-earth iron garnet films based on the faraday effect

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2047-2052

  Itoh, Nobuki ^a   Minemoto, Hisashi ^a   Ishiko, Daisuke ^a   Ishizuka, Satoshi ^a  

^a PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FILM GROWTH; LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

FARADAY ROTATORS; OPTICAL MAGNETIC FIELD SENSORS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0032620519     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.002047     Document Type: Article

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