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The reflection of an electromagnetic wave at the second-harmonic frequency from a semi-infinite optically isotropic magnetic medium for the directions of uniform magnetization corresponding to the meridional and equatorial Kerr effects is considered. Using the Green’s tensor function technique, in the first approximation in magnetization, the expressions for complex amplitudes of the field are obtained for the s and p polarizations of the incident beam and their superpositions. It is shown that in the latter case, the meridional effect becomes intensity-related. Dependences of the intensity-related meridional and equatorial Kerr effects on the angle characterizing polarization of the pump wave are obtained by numerical calculations. A comparative analysis of the linear and nonlinear Kerr effects is made.
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Translated from Optika i Spektroskopiya, Vol. 91, No. 4, 2001, pp. 663–670.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2001 by Belotelov, Pyatakov, Musaev, Eremin, Zvezdin.
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Belotelov, V.I., Pyatakov, A.P., Musaev, G.G. et al. Nonlinear intensity-related magneto-optical Kerr effects in the planar geometry. Opt. Spectrosc. 91, 626–633 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1412684
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1412684