Extraordinary transverse magneto-optical Kerr effect through excitation of bulk plasmon polariton modes in type II magneto-optical hyperbolic metamaterials.

In this work, we theoretically demonstrate the giant increment of the transversal magneto-optical Kerr effect in a type II hyperbolic metamaterial composed of four pairs of dielectric/metal layers, where the dielectric material presents magneto-optical activity. The enhancement is a consequence of high localization of the electromagnetic field inside the metamaterial given by excitation of the lowest order-bulk plasmon polariton mode.

Enhanced Transverse Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect in Magnetoplasmonic Crystals for the Design of Highly Sensitive Plasmonic (Bio)sensing Platforms.

We propose a highly sensitive sensor based on enhancing the transversal magneto-optical Kerr effect (TMOKE) through excitation of surface plasmon resonances in a novel and simple architecture, which consists of a metal grating on a metal magneto-optical layer. Detection of the change in the refractive index of the analyte medium is made by monitoring the angular shift of the Fano-like resonances associated with TMOKE. A higher resolution is obtained with this technique than with reflectance curves. The key aspect of the novel architecture is to achieve excitation of surface plasmon resonances mainly localized at the sensing layer, where interaction with the analyte occurs. This led to a high sensitivity, S = 190° RIU-1, and high performance with a figure of merit of the order of 103, which can be exploited in sensors and biosensors.