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OPTICA
Volume 4, Issue 9, Pages 1086-1091Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.4.001086
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2013CBA01504]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11129503, 11374210, 11405108, 11421064, 11675108]
- National 1000 Youth Talent Project of China
- Leverhulme Trust
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/P002056/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [1339893] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- STFC [ST/P002056/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The Faraday effect, caused by a magnetic-field-induced change in the optical properties, takes place in a vast variety of systems from a single atomic layer of graphenes to huge galaxies. Currently it plays a pivotal role in many applications such as the manipulation of light and the probing of magnetic fields and materials' properties. Basically, this effect causes a polarization rotation of light during its propagation along the magnetic field in a medium. Here, we report an extreme case of the Faraday effect where a linearly polarized ultrashort laser pulse splits in time into two circularly polarized pulses of opposite handedness during its propagation in a highly magnetized plasma. This offers a new degree of freedom for manipulating ultrashort and ultrahigh-power laser pulses. Together with the technologies of ultra-strong magnetic fields, it may pave the way for novel optical devices such as magnetized plasma polarizers. In addition, it may offer a powerful means to measure strong magnetic fields in laser-produced plasmas. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America
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