Magnetic optical activity in intense laser fields. I. Self-rotation and Verdet constant

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The Faraday rotation and circular dichroism of dilute gases in longitudinal magnetic fields and subject to strong radiation fields are studied. The use of irreducible tensorial sets as bare-atom states which are then dressed by the laser field allows a simple incorporation of the various multipole relaxation rates into the theory. The treatment considers magnetic fields which produce Zeeman shifts much smaller than inverse collision times but which may be greater or smaller than the multipole relaxation rates. Doppler broadening is also considered. Explicit expressions are given for dipole transitions in a two-level system with arbitrary angular momentum for strong and weak magnetic fields.

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