Enhancement of Magneto-optic Kerr effect of YIG nanoparticle by backscattering suppression

Abstract

Magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) enhancement is studied for Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) nanoparticle. The MOKE is quantified by the ratio of the polarization components of reflected wave, namely between the perpendicular component to the parallel component with respect to the polarization of the incident wave. Thus, the enhancement of MOKE can be obtained by increasing the perpendicular component or reducing the parallel component of the reflected wave polarization. An FDTD calculation is performed to obtain the scattered field. Projecting the resulting scattered field to the vector spherical harmonic basis, we show through multipole moments analysis that the suppression of backscattering non-MO field and the raise of the backscattered MO field can be achieved by subtle superposition of some optical modes. For the specific YIG particle system and the wavelength range chosen, the result shows that enhancement of MOKE up to 7.5 mrad can be achieved.