Optical and magneto-optical properties of Cu/Fe multilayers (MLs) with
different lengths of modulation were investigated in a wide wavelengt
h range at 293 K. The observed slight discrepancies between experiment
al optical conductivity spectra and their computer simulation for Cu/F
e MLs with a rectangular profile of modulation may be explained by the
appearance of an ultrathin layer with mixed components at the interfa
ce. It was shown that off-diagonal components of the dielectric tensor
for Cu/Fe MLs with ''thin'' Fe layers differ from corresponding compo
nents for the bulk Fe.