For the first time the NMR technique has been applied to the investigation of photomagnetic
phenomena in a magnetic material. In the transparent easy-plane weak ferromagnet
FeBO3
the 57Fe
NMR spectra were measured with and without light illumination. It was shown that the
exposure to light leads to (i) a total NMR frequency shift, as a result of electronic
magnetization change, and (ii) a NMR signal increase, which is spectrally inhomogeneous
at small external magnetic fields, where NMR spectrum splitting exists. The suggested
mechanism for signal enhancement was connected to the light induced decrease of the
basic-plane magnetic anisotropy.