Light scattering from magnetic systems

Abstract

The development of laser light sources and the accompanying technological developments in optical signal processing techniques has facilitated light scattering experiments that were beyond previously existing practice. In this paper, we discuss experiments in which light is inelastically scattered from various magnetic systems. The relation between the microscopic mechanisms responsible for these scattering and the microscopic mechanisms responsible for the conventional magneto-optical effects (i.e., Faraday and Kerr effects) is similar to the relationship between the microscopic mechanisms responsible for electron spin resonace phenomena and static electron paramagnetic susceptibilities.