2011-03-14
Nonreciprocal Properties of Surface Plasmon-Polaritons at the Interface Between Two Magnetized Media: Exact Analytical Solutions
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 21, 177-186, 2011
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate surface plasmon-polariton propagation at the interface of metal and magnetooptic dielectric semiinfinite layers where both layers are magnetized. Using magnetic group theory, we calculate scattering matrices for the waveguide sections with three orientations of dc magnetic field. Solving analytically the wave equation for the Voigt configuration, we obtain exact dispersion relation for this waveguide. Numerical examples show that the nonreciprocal phase shift between forward and backward waves can be increased significantly as compared with the case where only the magnetooptic dielectric layer is magnetized.
Citation
Victor A. Dmitriev, and Anderson Oliveira Silva, "Nonreciprocal Properties of Surface Plasmon-Polaritons at the Interface Between Two Magnetized Media: Exact Analytical Solutions," Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 21, 177-186, 2011.
doi:10.2528/PIERL11011904
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