An automated system for determining the optical and magneto-optical constants of thin films. II. Determination of the magneto-optical constants

Abstract

For pt.I see ibid., vol.14, p.1197 (1981). A fully automated technique is described in which the complex optical and magneto-optical constants of thin ferromagnetic films are determined from a measurement of the transverse Kerr effect using a least squares method of data analysis. Results are presented for an iron film which demonstrate that the technique is free from systematic errors and allows a determination of the optical constants and magneto-optical constants for similar materials to precisions of better than 2% and 4%, respectively.