A computer program to calculate the magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) of magnetic multilayered samples

This program computes the magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) of magnetic multi-layered thin-film systems. It is based on the full 4x4 matrix formalism following: P. Yeh, Surface Science 96, 41 (1980), and S. Visnovsky, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 41, 663 (1991). Apart from the complex Kerr angles the program can also compute the layer-sensitive coefficients linear and quadratic in the Cartesian magnetization components as explained in: K. Postava et al., J. Appl. Phys. 91, 7293 (2002). (The quadratic coefficients are restricted to isotropic or cubic materials with (001) orientation at the moment). This program can also be used to compute Brillouin Light Scattering (BLS) cross-sections as described in: M. Buchmeier, H. Dassow, D. E. Bürgler and C. M. Schneider, Intensity of Brillouin light scattering from spin waves in magnetic multi-layers with non-collinear spin configurations: Theory and experiment Phys. Rev. B 75, in press (May 2007) and arXiv:cond-mat/0702021. The archive contains the source code in C++ and a compiled binary for i386-Linux