Controlling the interaction of visible and infrared light with magnetization waves at the nanoscale provides impressive opportunities for developing novel efficient miniaturized devices for magnetic recording and information processing applications. We have studied several ways to enhance the interaction between light and elastic waves or magnetic waves.

References

E Almpanis, N Papanikolaou, N Stefanou, Nonspherical optomagnonic resonators for enhanced magnon-mediated optical transitions Physical Review B 104 (21), 214429.

E Almpanis, GP Zouros, PA Pantazopoulos, KL Tsakmakidis, N. Papanikolaou, N. Stefanou Spherical optomagnonic microresonators: Triple-resonant photon transitions between Zeeman-split Mie modes

Physical Review B 101 (5), 054412.

Metal-nanoparticle arrays on a magnetic garnet film for tunable plasmon-enhanced Faraday rotation, E. Almpanis, P. A. Pantazopoulos, N. Papanikolaou, V. Yannopapas, and N. Stefanou, Journal of the Optical Society of America B 33 (12), 2609-2616 (2016).

A birefringent etalon enhances the Faraday rotation of thin magneto-optical films, E. Almpanis, P. A. Pantazopoulos, N. Papanikolaou, V. Yannopapas, and N. Stefanou, Journal of Optics, 19, 075102 (2017).

Controlling the transverse magneto-optical Kerr effect with near-zero refractive index bi-gyrotropic metamaterials, E. Almpanis, M. Amanollahi, and M. Zamani, Optical Materials, 99, 109539 (2020).