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Real time magneto-optical imaging of vortices in superconductors

Paal Erik Goa, Harald Hauglin, Michael Baziljevich, Eugene Il'yashenko, Peter L. Gammel, Tom H. Johansen

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0104280

Abstract

We demonstrate here real-time imaging of individual vortices in a NbSe2 single crystal using polarized light microscopy. A new high-sensitivity magneto-optical (MO) imaging system enables observation of the static vortex lattice as well as single vortex motion at low flux densities.

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