title: Enhanced magneto-optical effects in magnetoplasmonic crystals.
abstract: Plasmonics allows light to be localized on length scales much shorter than its wavelength, which makes it possible to integrate photonics and electronics on the nanoscale. Magneto-optical materials are appealing for applications in plasmonics because they open up the possibility of using external magnetic fields in plasmonic devices. Here, we fabricate a new magneto-optical material, a magnetoplasmonic crystal, that consists of a nanostructured noble-metal film on top of a ferromagnetic dielectric, and we demonstrate an enhanced Kerr effect with this material. Such magnetoplasmonic crystals could have applications in telecommunications, magnetic field sensing and all-optical magnetic data storage.
authors.affiliation: A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia. belotelov@physics.msu.ru
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Belotelov
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Akimov
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pohl
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Kotov
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kasture
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Vengurlekar
authors.forename: Achanta Venu
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Gopal
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Yakovlev
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Zvezdin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bayer
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004581:Electronics; D005290:Ferric Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D008280:Magnetics; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation*
chemical_list: D005290:Ferric Compounds; D008670:Metals; C001215:ferrite; D006046:Gold