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Magneto-optical ellipsometry

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Through the extension of the Yeh's formalism (Surf. Sci.96 (1980) 41) to magnetic crystalline media the formulas of the magneto-optic ellipsometry and the dispersion relations for wave-guiding in multilayer magnetic crystalline structures are obtained. The theory covers most of the situations considered so far in the magneto-optics in which the optical response of the structures is linear in the amplitude of the incident wave. It is capable of treating the interfaces between two magnetic media and the structures containing such interfaces with no restrictions on the orientation of the magnetizations and crystalline axes at an arbitrary angle of incidence. The polar, longitudinal and transversal magnetizations in the structures are considered as special cases. Possible applications of the theory are in the analysis of the planar multilayer magneto-optic systems in the integrated optics and magneto-optic memory technology, in the study of profiles of magnetic surfaces subjected to mechanical wear, ion implantation, etc.

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Višňovský, Š. Magneto-optical ellipsometry. Czech J Phys 36, 625–650 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01597496

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