  Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy was used to study the features
of the electronic structure of an epitaxial La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 film in the range of
1.2 - 4 eV. The study of the temperature behavior of the MCD spectra made it
possible to establish a correlation between the magnetooptical and transport
properties of the sample. The data obtained were analyzed in comparison with
MCD data for polycrystalline manganite films of various RE1-xAxMnO3
compositions. The MCD spectra of the films were compared with the spectra of
the off-diagonal component of the permittivity tensor calculated from the data
of the magneto-optical Kerr effect for films of the same composition. A unified
set of ground and excited electronic states characteristic of RE1-xAxMnO3
manganites in the visible and near infrared ranges has been identified. These
results are important for a qualitative theoretical description of the
electronic structure of strongly correlated magnetic oxides.
