Large Faraday rotation in magnetophotonic crystals containing SiO2/ZrO2 matrix doped with CoFe2O4 magnetic nanoparticles

This paper has focused on the potential of the SiO2/ZrO2 matrix doped with CoFe2O4 magnetic nanoparticles in order to achieve the high performance one-dimensional magnetophotonic crystals (MPCs) and to overcome the problem of integration of the magneto-optical devices. Because of importance of magneto-optical Faraday effect in most non-reciprocal optical components, we have investigated the capability of such silicon-based materials for providing large Faraday rotations. We have introduced some MPC structures containing SiO2/ZrO2 matrix doped with CoFe2O4 magnetic nanoparticles and by varying the concentration of magnetic nanoparticles, influence of volume fraction VF% on the Faraday rotation and transmittance of the structures has studied.