Faraday effect
Noun
Meaning
Faraday effect (plural Faraday effects)
The phenomenon of Faraday rotation.
Alternative names
faraday-effect
Examples
Electromagnetic radiation had been first linked to electromagnetism in 1845, when Michael Faraday noticed that the polarization of light traveling through a transparent material responded to a magnetic field (see Faraday effect ).
Rotation of light's plane of polarization may also occur through the Faraday effect which involves a static magnetic field, however this is a distinct phenomenon that is not usually classified under "optical activity."
The rotation is not dependent on the direction of propagation, unlike the Faraday effect where the rotation is dependent on the relative direction of the applied magnetic field.
This difference in phase velocities leads to the Faraday effect.
This Faraday effect is one of the first discoveries of the relationship between light and electromagnetic effects.