Modern Magnetooptics and Magnetooptical Materials

Modern Magnetooptics and Magnetooptical Materials provides a comprehensive account of the principles and applications of magnetooptics, bridging the gap between textbooks and specialist accounts in the research and review literature. The book is aimed at the graduate physicist and electrical engineer, but assumes no specialist knowledge of magnetooptics. Chapters have been designed to be reasonably independent, so that readers in search of information on a particular topic can go straight to the appropriate place in the book, with only occasional reference to material elsewhere.

Divided into three main parts, the book begins with the principles of magnetooptics to provide the necessary theoretical background. This section's emphasis is on introducing practical considerations through examples taken from real-life situations. The next part surveys a wide range of magnetooptic materials, including metals, alloys, and granular structures. The final part explores applications of magnetooptics in practical devices, such as modulators, switches, memory devices, and waveguides. This book provides a thorough introduction for graduate students of physics and electrical engineering, and a useful reference for researchers.

"? a useful introduction to the main concepts of magnetooptics covering both theory and experiment, and aimed at engineers researchers and students in ? solid state physics, opto-electronics, communications, and materials science."
-Aslib Book Guide

"? [the] magnetooptical materials ? coverage is impressive [and] the authors have presented a good overview of the subject ? a very fine reference book ? plays a very useful role and I would recommend it for your science libraries."
-Australian & New Zealand Physicist

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