Nonreciprocal Properties of Surface Plasmon-Polaritons at the Inter ace Between Two Magnetized Media: Exact Analytical Solutions

In this paper, we investigate surface plasmon-polariton propagation at the interface of metal and magnetooptic dielectric semi infinite layers where both layers are magnetized. Using magnetic group theory, we calculate scattering matrices for the waveguide sections with three orientations of de magnetic field. Solving analytically the wave equation for the Voigt configuration, we obtain exact dispersion relation for this waveguide. Numerical examples show that the nonreciprocal phase shift between forward and backward waves can be increased significantly as compared with the case where only the magnetooptic dielectric layer is magnetized.