Direct excitation of propagating spin waves by focused ultrashort optical pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Au, Y ^a   Dvornik, M ^a,b   Davison, T ^a   Ahmad, E ^a   Keatley, P S ^a   Vansteenkiste, A ^b   Van Waeyenberge, B ^b   Kruglyak, V V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLIMATED BEAMS; DIRECT EXCITATION; GROUP-VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; MAGNETIC SAMPLES; MAGNETOSTATIC SPIN WAVES; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; RECIPROCAL SPACE; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES; ULTRASHORT OPTICAL PULSE; WAVE VECTOR;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; SPIN WAVES; VECTOR SPACES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 84874505591     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.097201     Document Type: Article

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