Role of magnetic circular dichroism in all-optical magnetic recording

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Khorsand, A R ^a   Savoini, M ^a   Kirilyuk, A ^a   Kimel, A V ^a   Tsukamoto, A ^b,c   Itoh, A ^b   Rasing, Th ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; ELLIPSOMETRY MEASUREMENTS; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISMS; MAGNETIC LAYERS; MAGNETO-OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; THRESHOLD FLUENCES; ULTRA-FAST;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84859116581     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.127205     Document Type: Article

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