Extraordinary transverse magneto-optical Kerr effect in a superlens

Abstract

It has been shown that a slab of a negative index material can behave as a superlens enhancing the imaging resolution beyond the wavelength limit. We show here that if such a slab possesses in addition some magneto-optical activity, it could act as an ideal optical filter and exhibit an extraordinary transverse magneto-optical Kerr effect. Moreover, we show that losses, which spoil the imaging resolution of these lenses, are a necessary ingredient to observe this effect.

5 pages, 6 figures

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• Negative reflections of electromagnetic waves in chiral media
• Generalized scattering-matrix approach for magneto-optics in periodically patterned multilayer systems