Design for coordinated measurements of Faraday rotation and line-of-sight electron density using heterodyne techniques
Abstract
A device which can overcome certain of the compromises of conventional Faraday rotation methods and at the same time measure the optical phase as well as the polarization is reported. This would be useful for unfolding the Faraday rotation signal using the line-of-sight density along exactly the same path. Preliminary design parameters using a CO2 laser are presented.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- July 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977dcmf.rept.....J
- Keywords:
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- Electron Density (Concentration);
- Faraday Effect;
- Heterodyning;
- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Design Analysis;
- Optical Polarization;
- Physics (General)