Magneto-optic polar Kerr and Faraday effects in periodic multilayers

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 158-171

  Visnovsky S ^a,b   Postava, K ^a   Yamaguchi, T ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; FARADAY EFFECT; MAGNETIC FILMS; MAGNETIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MULTILAYERS; POLARIMETERS; ULTRATHIN FILMS; VECTORS;

EIGEN MODES; MAGNETO-OPTICAL MATERIALS; PERIODIC MULTILAYERS; PERMITTIVITY TENSORS;

KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT;

EID: 3242813628     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000158     Document Type: Article

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