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Abstract
The subject of electromagnetism has often been called electrodynamics to emphasize the dominance of the electric field in dynamic light–matter interactions that take place under non-relativistic conditions. Here we show experimentally that the often neglected optical magnetic field can nevertheless play an important role in a class of optical nonlinearities driven by both the electric and magnetic components of light at modest (non-relativistic) intensities. We specifically report the observation of magneto-electric rectification, a previously unexplored nonlinearity at the molecular level which has important potential for energy conversion, ultrafast switching, nano-photonics, and nonlinear optics. Our experiments were carried out in nanocrystalline pentacene thin films possessing spatial inversion symmetry that prohibited second-order, all-electric nonlinearities but allowed magneto-electric rectification.
The role of the optical magnetic field is generally not considered at nonrelativistic light intensities. Here the authors show magneto-electric rectification, an optical nonlinear effect due to electric and magnetic field coupling, in a thin film of the organic semiconductor pentacene at non-relativistic intensities.
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1 University of Michigan, Center for Dynamic Magneto-Optics, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Ann Arbor, USA (GRID:grid.214458.e) (ISNI:0000000086837370); University of South Florida, Department of Physics, Tampa, USA (GRID:grid.170693.a) (ISNI:0000 0001 2353 285X)
2 University of Michigan, Division of Applied Physics, Ann Arbor, USA (GRID:grid.214458.e) (ISNI:0000000086837370)
3 University of Michigan, Center for Dynamic Magneto-Optics, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Ann Arbor, USA (GRID:grid.214458.e) (ISNI:0000000086837370)
4 University of Michigan, Department. of Materials Science, Ann Arbor, USA (GRID:grid.214458.e) (ISNI:0000000086837370)
5 University of Michigan, Center for Dynamic Magneto-Optics, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Ann Arbor, USA (GRID:grid.214458.e) (ISNI:0000000086837370); University of Michigan, Division of Applied Physics, Ann Arbor, USA (GRID:grid.214458.e) (ISNI:0000000086837370)