Linear and nonlinear magneto-optical diffraction from one-dimensional periodic structures

Lazarenko, S.V. and Kirilyuk, A. and Rasing, Th. and Lodder, J.C. (2003) Linear and nonlinear magneto-optical diffraction from one-dimensional periodic structures. Journal of Applied Physics, 93 (10). pp. 7903-7905. ISSN 0021-8979

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Abstract:	Nonlinear magneto-optical diffraction from periodically structured samples has been studied using magnetization-induced second harmonic generation (MSHG). Several orders of diffraction were clearly observable in MSHG, along with a strong dependence on the magnetization. Sizeable asymmetry between the MSHG signal measured in positive and negative diffraction peaks, especially visible in second order, are explained by Fresnel factors. It was found that first-order diffraction hysteresis loops differ from all others by showing an ''overshoot'' at magnetization reversal, both in MSHG and in the linear magneto-optical Kerr effect. Tentatively this behavior is explained as due to inhomogeneous reversal of the magnetization in the stripes.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2003 American Institute of Physics
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Transducers Science and Technology (TST)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/66113
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1557761
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