Magneto-optics in the Ultrafast Regime: Thermalization of Spin Populations in Ferromagnetic Films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Guidoni, Luca ^a   Beaurepaire, Eric ^a   Bigot, Jean Yves ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE ET CHIMIE DES MATÉRIAUX DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; PHOTOEMISSION; PHOTONS; TENSORS; THERMOANALYSIS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

THERMALIZATION; VOIGT VECTORS;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0036641578     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.017401     Document Type: Article

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