Directional control of spin-wave emission by spatially shaped light

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 662-666

  Satoh, Takuya ^a,b   Terui, Yuki ^a   Moriya, Rai ^a   Ivanov, Boris A ^a,c   Ando, Kazuya ^d   Saitoh, Eiji ^b,d,e,f   Shimura, Tsutomu ^a   Kuroda, Kazuo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF MAGNETISM   (Ukraine)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Advanced Science Research Center   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAMS; DIRECTIONAL CONTROL; INFORMATION CARRIERS; INVERSE FARADAY EFFECTS; LIGHT PULSE; SPATIAL INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; SWITCHING DEVICES; WAVE NUMBERS;

ELECTRON HOLOGRAPHY; FARADAY EFFECT; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SPIN WAVES;

LIGHT;

EID: 84866993979     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.218     Document Type: Article

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