Investigation of ultrafast demagnetization and cubic optical nonlinearity of Ni in the polar geometry

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 95, Issue 11 II, 2004, Pages 7441-7443

  Wilks, R ^a   Hicken, R J ^a   Ali, M ^b   Hickey, B J ^b   Buchanan, J D R ^c   Pym, A T G ^c   Tanner, B K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DEMAGNETIZATION; FARADAY EFFECT; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NICKEL; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL PUMPING; POLARIZATION; TENSORS; TORQUE;

CUBIC OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; ELLIPTICITY RESPONSE; SPECULAR INVERSE FARADAY EFFECT (SIFE); SPECULAR OPTICAL KERR EFFECT (SOKE);

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EID: 2942642558     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1687538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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