Magnetoplasmonic Design Rules for Active Magneto-Optics
Journal article, 2014
Light polarization rotators and nonreciprocal optical isolators are essential building blocks in photonics technology. These macroscopic passive devices are commonly based on magneto-optical Faraday and Kerr polarization rotation. Magnetoplasmonics, the combination of magnetism and plasmonics, is a promising route to bring these devices to the nanoscale. We introduce design rules for highly tunable active magnetoplasmonic elements in which we can tailor the amplitude and sign of the Kerr response over a broad spectral range.
magneto optics
magnetoplasmonics
Photonics
Kerr response
Author
Kristof Lodewijks
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Bionanophotonics
N. Maccaferri
Tavakol Pakizeh
K. N. Toosi University of Technology
Randy K. Dumas
University of Gothenburg
Irina Zubritskaya
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Bionanophotonics
Johan Åkerman
University of Gothenburg
Paolo Vavassori
Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science
Alexander Dmitriev
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Bionanophotonics
Nano Letters
1530-6984 (ISSN) 1530-6992 (eISSN)
Vol. 14 12 7207-7214Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Physical Sciences
Areas of Advance
Materials Science
DOI
10.1021/nl504166n