Dark Mode - Faraday Rotation Synergy for Enhanced Magneto-Optics

TL;DR

This paper explores how applying magnetic bias to dark-mode plasmonic particles enhances Faraday rotation, significantly surpassing conventional magneto-optic effects, with potential for highly sensitive magneto-optic devices.

Contribution

It demonstrates that magnetic bias can mitigate destructive interference in dark-mode plasmonics, leading to greatly increased Faraday rotation in lossless silver-like particles.

Findings

Over 20 degrees Faraday rotation at 1-2 Tesla magnetic fields.

Magneto-plasmonic activity is 100-1000 times larger than in conventional particles.

External magnetic bias shifts dark resonances to enhance magneto-optic effects.

Abstract

We examine the efficacy of Dark-mode plasmonics as a platform for enhanced magneto-optics. Dark-mode of a small particle consists of two co-existing equal-intensity and mutually opposing dipolar excitations. Each of these two opposing dipoles may even resonate at or near the dark-mode frequency, but the net dipole moment vanishes due to the mutual cancelation between the opposing dipoles. We show that application of external magnetic bias may alleviate the intense destructive interference. Furthermore, under external magnetic bias the opposing dark-resonances of a plasmonic particle shift in opposite directions and create a region of extremely sensitive Faraday rotation. We show that the magnetized dark resonance in lossless Ag-like particle may provide more than 20 degrees rotation under magnetic fields of the order of 1-2 Tesla, exhibiting magneto-plasmonic activity that is 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than that observed in conventional plasmonic particle of the same material.