Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 847–850 (1997)Direction of Optical Energy Flow in a Transverse Magnetic FieldReceived 11 October 1996; published in the issue dated 3 February 1997 In this Letter, we report a theoretical and experimental study of the direction of optical energy flow in homogeneous media subject to a transverse magnetic field. For transparent media we verify experimentally for the first time the existence of magnetic deflection of circularly polarized light. In absorbing media the calculated directions of the Poynting vector and of a wave packet do not coincide. Experimentally we demonstrate that the Poynting vector result is not correct. © 1997 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.847
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.847
PACS:
41.20.Jb, 41.20.Bt, 78.20.Ls
See AlsoComment: G. W. 't Hooft, G. Nienhuis, and J. C. Paasschens, Comment on “Direction of Optical Energy Flow in a Transverse Magnetic Field”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1114 (1998). Comment: Jiang Yimin and Mario Liu, Comment on “Direction of Optical Energy Flow in a Transverse Magnetic Field, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 099401 (2003). Reply: G. L. Rikken and B. A. van Tiggelen, Rikken and van Tiggelen Reply:, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1115 (1998). Reply: G. L. Rikken and B. A. van Tiggelen, Rikken and Van Tiggelen Reply:, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 099402 (2003). |
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