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Magneto‐optical contrast in near‐field optics
Author(s) -
Chen Y.,
Kottler V.,
Chappert C.,
Essaidi N.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of microscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1365-2818
pISSN - 0022-2720
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1999.00565.x
Subject(s) - faraday effect , optics , magnetic field , magnetic circular dichroism , planar , contrast (vision) , faraday cage , physics , field (mathematics) , rotation (mathematics) , magneto optical , materials science , geometry , astronomy , computer science , pure mathematics , spectral line , computer graphics (images) , mathematics , quantum mechanics
We propose a simple calculation of near‐field magneto‐optical (MO) images based on the beam propagation method. We calculate both Faraday rotation and circular dichroism contrasts of planar magnetic structures such as as‐grown thin films and ion‐irradiated samples. High‐contrast near‐field MO images are obtained, in good agreement with our experimental observations.