discussed. Conclusions are given in Section VII. II. GEOMETRY FIG. 1. Geometry. Canting of two magnetic sublattices ( m$_{a}$ and m$_{b}$ ) by an angle θ produces a weak ferromagnetism ( M ) along the ˆ x axis parallel to the surface. The spontaneous polarization ( ⃗ P ) is assumed to lie in a plane parallel to the surface. Propagation of the surface mode is along the ˆ y axis with wavenumber ⃗ k$_{y}$ . The geometry is sketched in Fig.1. We consider a semi-infinite multiferroic film that fills the half space z < 0. The magnetic component of the multiferroic is a two sub-lattice anti- ferromagnet with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy. The two magnetic sub-lattices are allowed to cant in the x − z plane with canting angle  θ . We assume symmetric canting such that | ⃗ m$_{a}$ | = | ⃗ m$_{b}$ | = M$_{s}$ . The canting generates a weak ferromagnetism which is perpendicular to the spontaneous polarisation. This configuration represents a Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya canting driven by spontaneous polarisation. Both the weak ferromagnetic moment and spontaneous polarisation are constrained to lie in x − y plane  parallel to the surface. The magnetic easy axis is out-of-plane  along the z direction. An external electric field is applied parallel to the spontaneous polarisation  and an external magnetic field is applied along the weak ferromagnet moment. For the polariton propagation  we consider in this paper transverse magnetic (TM) po- larization in which the magnetic part of the electromagnetic wave propagates parallel to the surface. We consider only surface modes traveling along the ˆ y direction  so that the magnetic component lies in ˆ x direction while the electric component has E$_{y}$ and E$_{z}$ components. 3