Optics in Magnetic Multilayers and Nanostructures presents an accessible introduction to optics in anisotropic magnetic media.

Features:

• Presents full, step-by-step derivations of the formulae for optics in anisotropic media
• Illustrates the basic concepts on media that would be optically isotropic in the absence of magnetization
• Analyzes the simultaneous effect of crystalline symmetry and arbitrarily oriented magnetization on the form of permittivity
• Provides necessary information for applications including magnetic microscopy, reading data stored in magnetooptic disks, and magnetooptic light modulation as well as for optical metrology of magnetic materials

Contents

Introduction

• History
• Magnetized Medium
• Propagation Parallel to Magnetization
• Voigt Effect
• Propagation in Anisotropic Media
• Reflection at an Arbitrary Angle of Incidence
• Multilayer Response

Material Tensors

• Tensors in Magnetic Crystals
• Rotation About an Axis
• Frequency Dependence
• Lorentz-Drude Model
• Semiclassical Susceptibility

Anisotropic Multilayers

• Proper Modes
• Matrix Representation of Planar Structures
• Waves in Isotropic Regions
• Reflection and Transmission
• Single Interface

Polar Magnetization

• Normal Incidence
• Analytical Formula
• Magnetic Superlattices
• Oblique Incidence

Longitudinal Magnetization

• Transfer Matrix
• Magnetic Film-Magnetic Substrate System
• Approximate Solution for the Oblique Incidence

Transverse Magnetization

• M Matrix
• Film-Substrate System at Transverse Magnetization
• Waveguide TM Modes

Normal Incidence

• Wave Equation
• General M Matrix
• Examples
• Nearly Normal Incidence

Arbitrary Magnetization

• Matrix Representation
• Single Interface
• Characteristic Matrix
• Magnetic Film
• Film-Spacer System
• Transmission in a Film Substrate System

Anisotropic Multilayer Gratings

• Fields in the Grating Region
• Product of Series
• Matrix Representation
• Matrix Formulation of the Solution
• Homogeneous Anisotropic Region
• Transmission and Interface Matrices
• Wave Diffraction on the Grating
• Multilayer Periodic Structures
• Isotropic Layers at Normal Incidence
• Homogeneous Isotropic Layers at Oblique Incidence

Index

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