title: Faraday rotation in a two-dimensional photonic crystal with a magneto-optic defect.
abstract: We study the magneto-optic (MO) Faraday rotation in a two-dimensional square-lattice photonic crystal with a central MO defect layer in the optical wavelength range. We show that when a TM plane wave is incident upon a photonic crystal, an enhancement of Faraday rotation takes place in a region where a resonance peak appears in the photonic bandgap. In this region the mode conversion is high.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microelectronics and Information Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Electrum 229, SE-164 40 Kista, Sweden. jalali@imit.kth.se
authors.forename: Amir A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Jalali
authors.forename: Ari T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Friberg