Abstract
Abstract Magnetoelectric coupling in multiferroic materials opens new routes to control the propagation of light. The new effects arise due to dynamic magnetoelectric susceptibility that cross-couples the electric and magnetic fields of light and modifies the solutions of Maxwell equations in media. In this paper, two major effects will be considered in detail: optical activity and asymmetric propagation. In case of optical activity the polarization plane of the input radiation rotates by an angle proportional to the magnetoelectric susceptibility. The asymmetric propagation is a counter-intuitive phenomenon and it represents different transmission coefficients for forward and backward directions. Both effects are especially strong close to resonance frequencies of electromagnons, i. e. excitations in multiferroic materials that reveal simultaneous electric and magnetic character.
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