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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B Année : 2017

Counter-rotating standing spin waves: A magneto-optical illusion

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We excite perpendicular standing spin waves by a laser pulse in a GaMnAsP ferromagnetic layer and detect them using time-resolved magneto-optical effects. Quite counter-intuitively, we find the first two excited modes to be of opposite chirality. We show that this can only be explained by taking into account absorption and optical phase shift inside the layer. This optical illusion is particularly strong in weakly absorbing layers. These results provide a correct identification of spin waves modes, enabling a trustworthy estimation of their respective weight as well as an unambiguous determination of the spin stiffness parameter.
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hal-01490261 , version 1 (15-03-2017)

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S. Shihab, L. Thevenard, A. Lemaître, C. Gourdon. Counter-rotating standing spin waves: A magneto-optical illusion. Physical Review B, 2017, 95 (14), pp.144411. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.95.144411⟩. ⟨hal-01490261⟩
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