Steering light with magnetic textures
Optics
2022-01-21 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
We study the steering of visible light using a combination of magneto-optical effects and the reconfigurability of magnetic domains in Yttrium-Iron Garnet films. The spontaneously formed stripe domains are used as a field-controlled optical grating, allowing for active spatiotemporal control of light. We discuss the basic ideas behind the approach and provide a quantitative description of the field dependence of the obtained light patterns. Finally, we calculate and experimentally verify the efficiency of our magneto-optical grating.
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@article{arxiv.2111.15219,
title = {Steering light with magnetic textures},
author = {Ioan-Augustin Chioar and Christina Vantaraki and Merlin Pohlit and Richard M. Rowan-Robinson and Evangelos Th. Papaioannou and Björgvin Hjörvarsson and Vassilios Kapaklis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.15219},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
5 pages and 5 figures in main text, supplemental material