  We study the spin-resolved spectral properties of the impurity states
associated to the presence of magnetic impurities in two-dimensional, as well
as one-dimensional systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We focus on Shiba
bound states in superconducting materials, as well as on impurity states in
metallic systems. Using a combination of a numerical T-matrix approximation and
a direct analytical calculation of the bound state wave function, we compute
the local density of states (LDOS) together with its Fourier transform (FT). We
find that the FT of the spin-polarized LDOS, a quantity accessible via
spin-polarized STM, allows to accurately extract the strength of the spin-orbit
coupling. Also we confirm that the presence of magnetic impurities is strictly
necessary for such measurement, and that non-spin-polarized experiments cannot
have access to the value of the spin-orbit coupling.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics;Superconductivity