Measurement of the Verdet Constant for a Previously Uncharacterized Fused Quartz Glass

Author

Samyukta Krishnamurthy, University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College

Date of Award

2017

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

Physics and Astronomy

First Advisor

Robert Kroeger

Relational Format

Dissertation/Thesis

Abstract

The objective of this experiment is to measure and analyze the Verdet constant for Corning 7980, a fused quartz glass with no previously published Verdet constant data. This quartz glass is being used at the Belle II experiment at Tsukuba, Japan. The Verdet constant is measured using the Faraday effect — a magneto-optical phenomenon that describes the rotation of the plane of polarization of light within a medium in the presence of an external magnetic field. This experiment quantifies the rotation of the plane of polarization with respect to the wavelength and the magnetic field. Data collected through this experiment depicts a linear relation between the angle of rotation and the magnetic field. A linear relationship is also established between the Verdet constant and

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Krishnamurthy, Samyukta, "Measurement of the Verdet Constant for a Previously Uncharacterized Fused Quartz Glass" (2017). Honors Theses. 819.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/819

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