Title :
The Faraday effect in three-dimensional opal photonic crystals
Author :
Baryshev, A. ; Kodama, T. ; Nishumura, K. ; Uchida, H. ; Inoue, M.
Author_Institution :
Toyohashi Univ. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
We have investigated the Faraday effect of three-dimensional photonic crystals, artificial opals immersed in a magnetoactive liquid. Faraday rotation was measured along high-symmetry points on the Brillouin zone surface of the opal lattice. It was shown that the behavior of the Faraday rotation spectrum taken along certain crystallographic direction strongly depends on photonic bandgaps of opal samples. The features observed in Faraday rotation spectra coincide with photonic bandgap minima.
Keywords :
Brillouin zones; Faraday effect; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; Brillouin zone surface; Faraday effect; Faraday rotation; crystallographic direction; magnetoactive liquid; opal lattice; photonic bandgaps; three-dimensional opal photonic crystals; Crystalline materials; Crystallography; Faraday effect; Magnetic anisotropy; Magnetic materials; Magnetooptic effects; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystals; Rotation measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Magnetics Conference, 2005. INTERMAG Asia 2005. Digests of the IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9009-1
DOI :
10.1109/INTMAG.2005.1464264
