Nonthermal ultrafast optical control of the magnetization in garnet films

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Hansteen, Fredrik ^a,b   Kimel, Alexey ^a   Kirilyuk, Andrei ^a   Rasing, Theo ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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EID: 33144469242     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.014421     Document Type: Article

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