Open AccessSoft X-ray magmeto-optical Faraday rotation measurements with the multilayer polarizer
Author(s) -
Fengyuan Yan,
Mingqi Cui,
Kai Chen,
Limin Sun,
Shibo Xi,
Zhou Ke-Jin,
Liyun Zheng,
Zhao Yang,
Zhanshan Wang,
Jiping Zhu,
Zhang Zhong,
Zhao Jia
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.57.2860
Subject(s) - polarizer , faraday effect , optics , materials science , polarimeter , synchrotron radiation , physics , synchrotron , rotation (mathematics) , polarimetry , magnetic field , birefringence , scattering , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics
We measured magneto-optical (MO) Faraday rotation around the M2,3 edges (60—70 eV) of Ni film on 3W1B beam line of Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility (BSRF) in the soft X-ray region through a versatile polarimeter with mutilayer polarizers, which is mainly composed of polarizer, analyzer, sample frame, round NdFeB permanent-magnet and MCP detector. We used the reflective aperiodic molybdenum/silicon broadband multilayer polarizers as the polarizer and the analyzer in the versatile polarimeter, and obtained a series of Faraday rotation results in the 60—70 eV region. The results demonstrate that the Faraday rotation angles are obviously large around Ni M2,3 edges, the rotation angles are 179±019°(average rotation angle in parallel and antiparallel magnet fields) and -076±009°(average rotation angle in parallel and antiparallel magnet fields) at the energy 655 eV and 68 eV, respectively.