Current pulses of up to 20 A and as short as 3 ps are generated by a low temperature grown GaAs (lt-GaAs) photoconductive switch and guided through a coplanar waveguide, resulting in a 0.6 Tesla terahertz (THz) magnetic field pulse. The pulse length is directly calibrated using photocurrent autocorrelation. Magnetic excitations in Fe microstructures are studied by time-resolved Kerr spectroscopy and compared with micromagnetic simulations. A response within less than 10 ps to the THz electromagnetic field pulse is found.
@article{arxiv.0711.3427,
title = {Spin dynamics triggered by sub-terahertz magnetic field pulses},
author = {Zhao Wang and Matthäus Pietz and Arno Förster and Mihail I. Lepsa and Markus Münzenberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.3427},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to J. Appl. Phys, changes made with regard to review process