The photoinduced electron drift should also occur in metals; however, because of the high absorption coefficient of metals and the high concentration of conduction electrons in them, its observation in metals is greatly complicated.
In this paper, variations in the reflection of light from then multilayer metal films are theoretically and experimentally studied upon their irradiation by intense nanosecond laser pulses. The irradiation results in the optical rotation of light reflected from nonmagnetic metal films due to photoinduced drift of electrons with polarized spins.
The results, presented in this paper showed that nonmagnetic films in multilayer magnetic films could be magnetizations with polarized spins.

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