Raymond Reinisch

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the best optimization not only depends on the orientation of the magnetic field but also on the magneto-optical coefficients, and that the most effective surface plasmons for the transverse orientation and may be the overdamped surface plasms for the polar and longitudinal ones for the noble metal/ferromagnetic-metal multilayer thin films.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a new approach to study second harmonic generation at grating couplers where they take full advantage of the fact that there is a resonant excitation of normal modes of the coupler (guided wave or surface plasmon) and derive not only the guided wave amplitude but also the radiated diffracted orders at the second harmonic frequency.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the question of the intermediate region constituted by the Fresnel zone and give a criterium of the far-field pattern, in addition to the near-field and farfield patterns.

TL;DR: In the surface plasmon minigap, no second-harmonic light is observed in the specular direction, whereas a strong signal is detected in the direction normal to the mean plane of the grating.

TL;DR: In this paper, the shape of the dark line associated with the excitation of guided waves is analyzed for nonlinear M-line spectroscopy, which is an easy technique for the determination of Kerr properties of thin films, which can constitute optical waveguides.