Title :
Giant transverse magneto-optical Kerr effect with near 100% reflectivity from subwavelength magneto-photonic gratings
Author :
Hutomo, Jessica ; Maksymov, Ivan S. ; Kostylev, Mikhail
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Phys., Univ. of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
Abstract :
We propose and theoretically verify an efficient enhancement mechanism of the transverse magneto-optical Kerr effect (TMOKE) in magneto-photonic gratings. We demonstrate ten times larger TMOKE response and four times higher reflectivity as compared with magneto-plasmonic gratings.
Keywords :
Kerr magneto-optical effect; diffraction gratings; reflectivity; TMOKE; giant transverse magnetooptical Kerr effect; magnetoplasmonic gratings; reflectivity; subwavelength magnetophotonic gratings; Gratings; Magnetic multilayers; Magnetic resonance imaging; Nanostructures; Reflectivity; Refractive index; Saturation magnetization;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fibre Technology, 2014 OptoElectronics and Communication Conference and Australian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
