Abstract
We report the first observation, to our knowledge, of the nonresonant time-resolved specular inverse Faraday effect (SIFE) and its coherent and incoherent contributions. We have developed it as a polarization-sensitive method for spectroscopy of solids illustrated by what we believe to be the first direct measurements of the free-electron spin-relaxation time in bulk GaAs at room temperature and of several nonresonant cubic optical nonlinearities in various crystals.
© 1994 Optical Society of America
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