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Faraday rotation of the plane of polarization of light in solutions of C60 in orthoxylene has been experimentally studied. The Verdet constant of solutions with the concentrations 5 mg/mL and 2 mg/mL and of the pure solvent has been measured at the wavelength 633 nm. The contribution of the fullerene molecules to the Verdet constant V is separated out, the value of this contribution is converted to concentration of the C60 crystal, and the Verdet constant for solid fullerene is found to be V = 0.61 deg/Oe·m. This value agrees well with estimates of the constant V obtained from analysis of the data on the dispersion of the refractive index of C60, films, suggesting that the effect of the intermolecular interaction on the electronic spectrum of the fullerene molecules is weak.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)745-746
JournalJournal of Optical Technology (A Translation of Opticheskii Zhurnal)
Volume66
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999

    Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Engineering(all)
  • Computational Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics

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