Interplay of heating and helicity in all-optical magnetization switching

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Alebrand, Sabine ^a   Hassdenteufel, Alexander ^a   Steil, Daniel ^a   Cinchetti, Mirko ^a   Aeschlimann, Martin ^a  

^a France   (Germany)

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EID: 84859091036     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.092401     Document Type: Article

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33. min (25 μ m) was always well above the lateral resolution of our Faraday microscope (≤ 5 μ m).
34. The slight change of the pulse duration with repetition rate from 9 to 13 ps is not expected to have a significant influence on the switching threshold as shown in Ref..