Coherent optical phonons and parametrically coupled magnons induced by femtosecond laser excitation of the gd(0001) surface

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Melnikov, A ^a   Radu, I ^a   Bovensiepen, U ^a   Krupin, O ^a   Starke, K ^a   Matthias, E ^a   Wolf, M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COHERENT LIGHT; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; GADOLINIUM; HAMILTONIANS; LASER PULSES; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAGNETIC FILMS; MAGNETIZATION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

COHERENT SPIN DYNAMICS; FEMTOSECOND LASER EXCITATION; FERROMAGNETIC FILM; MAGNONS; TIME RESOLVED DETECTION TECHNIQUE;

PHONONS;

EID: 0346058205     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.227403     Document Type: Article

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