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A. N. Kalish

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Enhanced magneto-optical intensity effect in a helicity-preserving all-dielectric metasurface at Mie resonances and the anapole state

Nanophotonic structures provide an efficient route to enhancing magneto-optical effects by concentrating electromagnetic fields at subwavelength scales. In this work, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a helicity-preserving all-dielectric metasurface for enhancing magnetization-induced transmission modulation under circularly polarized excitation. The optical response of the structure is governed by the Mie resonances of silicon nanodisks and by a spectral feature associated with the anapole state. In the spectral regions of the Mie resonances, the metasurface exhibits a pronounced enhancement of the magneto-optical intensity response relative to a bare magnetic film of the same thickness, with the normalized magneto-optical intensity effect increased by a factor of about 2-3. A strong response is also observed in the spectral region associated with the anapole state, manifested as a local transmission maximum. In this regime, the normalized magneto-optical intensity effect exceeds that of the bare magnetic film by about 30%, while the metasurface transmission remains as high as around 80%. The enhanced response in this spectral region is preserved over a broad range of incidence angles. These results demonstrate that all-dielectric metasurfaces combining Mie resonances with the spectral feature associated with the anapole state provide an efficient platform for magneto-optical intensity modulation of circularly polarized light at high transmission.

physics.optics

Unusual sign-changing Faraday effect in nanometer-thick magnetic films

It is generally believed that the magneto-optical Faraday effect appears in the the bulk of a magnetic material and its sign is fully determined by the sign of the non-diagonal permittivity element. Here we reveal an additional contribution to the Faraday effect from the film interfaces. It becomes notable for films with a thickness of a few tens of nanometers. As a result, in the absorption band of the film a novel feature of the Faraday effect is experimentally observed and numerically confirmed: sign of the Faraday rotation at a fixed wavelength becomes dependent on the film thickness and therefore is ambiguously related to the sign of the gyration and magnetization of the film. We elaborated an analytical model taking into account an interplay between the bulk and surface contributions which nicely describes the experimental data. Moreover, the Faraday rotation coming purely from interfaces without any bulk contribution is demonstrated. Possible applications of the observed unusual Faraday rotation behavior include hardware data encryption and other devices performing polarization control at nanoscale.

physics.optics

The Faraday effect in magnetoplasmonic nanostructures with spatial modulation of magnetization

The magneto-optical Faraday effect in the magnetoplasmonic nanostructures with nonuniform, periodically modulated spatial distribution of the magnetization is considered. It is shown that in such nanostructures the Faraday effect can experience the resonant enhancement in the spectral range of the plasmonic and waveguide optical modes excitation. It happens both for $s$ and $p$-polarized light. Such an effect can serve for the spectrally selective detection of the short spin waves in the magnetic materials.

physics.optics

Vector magneto-optical magnetometer based on the resonant all-dielectric gratings with highly anisotropic iron-garnet films

A sensitive vector magnetometry with high spatial resolution is important for various practical applications, such as magnetocardiography, magnetoencephalography, explosive materials detection and many others. We propose a magnetometer based on the magnetic iron-garnet film possessing a very high magnetic anisotropy, placed in the rotating external magnetic field. Each of the measured magnetic field spatial components produces different temporal harmonics in the out-of-plane magnetization dependence. The dielectric resonant grating placed on the top of an ultrathin film enhanced the magneto-optical response 10 times which makes it possible to achieve 10 times higher spatial resolution in the perpendicular to the film direction. The reported magneto-optical magnetometer allows one to measure simultaneously all three spatial components of the magnetic field with high spatial resolution and sensitivity up to 100 pT/Hz$^{1/2}$.

physics.app-ph