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We demonstrate sustained coherent emission of spin waves in NiFe films using rapid demagnetization from high repetition rate femtosecond laser pulse trains. As the pulse separation is shorter than the magnon decay time, magnons having a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 A. A. Awad , S. Muralidhar , A. Alemán , R. Khymyn , M. Dvornik , D. Hanstorp , J. Åkerman

Spin waves, the collective excitations of the magnetic order parameter, and magnons, the associated quasiparticles, are envisioned as possible data carriers in future wave-based computing architectures. On the road towards spin-wave…

This paper studies the propagation of intense laser in plasmas in weak relativistic region($0.1<a_0^2<0.5$) using the quasi-periodic approximation. Effective Lorentz factor and density wave effects are calculated in detail. The relativistic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongyu Wang , Zuqia Huang

Narrow-linewidth lasers at short/visible wavelengths are crucial for quantum and atomic applications, such as atomic clocks, quantum computing, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, and quantum sensing. However, such lasers are often only…

We report the first direct observation of Brillouin-like propagation modes in a dissipative periodic optical lattice. This has been done by observing, in both theoretical and experimental work, a resonant behaviour of the spatial diffusion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Sanchez-Palencia , F. -R. Carminati , M. Schiavoni , F. Renzoni , G. Grynberg

A lens, a device transforming propagation directions in an organized fashion, is one of the fundamental tools for wave manipulation. Spin wave, the collective excitation of ordered magnetizations, stands out as a promising candidate for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Hongbin Wu , Zi-Wu Wang , Jin Lan

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), an optical nonlinearity arising from photon-phonon interactions, has formed the basis for a large class of optical signal processing devices, including Brillouin amplifiers. A limiting factor of such…

Absorption of ultrashort laser pulses in a metallic grating deposited on a transparent sample launches coherent compression/dilatation acoustic pulses in directions of different orders of acoustic diffraction. Their propagation is detected…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Osamu Matsuda , Thomas Pezeril , Ievgeniia Chaban , Kentaro Fujita , Vitalyi Gusev

The developments in the field of quantum optics raise expectations that laser-matter coupling is a promising building block for magnonics. Here, we propose a method for the generation of direct and alternating spin currents of magnons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Kouki Nakata , Yuichi Ohnuma

In this paper we consider a honeycomb antiferromagnet subject to an external laser field. Obtaining a time-independent effective Hamiltonian, we find that the external laser renormalizes the exchange interaction between the in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 J. C. G. Henriques , T. V. C. Antão , N. M. R. Peres

We experimentally and theoretically demonstrate that nonlinear spin-wave dynamics can induce an effective resonant interaction between non-resonant magnon modes in a yttrium iron garnet disk. Under strong pumping near the ferromagnetic…

We develop a theory of the spin wave dynamics excited by ultrafast focused laser pulses in a magnetic film. We take into account both volume and surface spin wave modes in the presence of applied, dipolar and magnetic anisotropy fields and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-24 Ka Shen , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

While nanoscale modal confinement radically enhances a variety of nonlinear light-matter interactions within silicon waveguides, traveling-wave stimulated Brillouin scattering nonlinearities have never been observed in silicon…

Stimulated Brillouin backscattering of light is shown to be drastically enhanced in electron-positron plasmas, in contrast to the suppression of stimulated Raman scattering. A generalized theory of three-wave coupling between…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Matthew R. Edwards , Nathaniel J. Fisch , Julia M. Mikhailova

In this paper, we explore the spatio-temporal dynamics of spontaneous and stimulated forward Brillouin scattering. This general treatment incorporates the optomechanical coupling produced by boundary-induced radiation pressures (boundary…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-15 Prashanta Kharel , Ryan Behunin , William Renninger , Peter Rakich

Stimulated Brillouin microlasers offer chip-scale light sources with high spectral purity and low phase noise--key attributes for applications spanning precision metrology, quantum technologies, and coherent information processing. However,…

Phase and/or intensity modulation techniques to broaden the Linewidth of an optical source are well known methods to suppress stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in optical fibers. A common technique used to achieve significant bandwidth…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. R. Supradeepa

We explore the possibility of the formation of photon-phonon entangled states in nanoscale wires by exploiting stimulated inter-modal Brillouin scattering of co-propagating photons that belong to distinct spatial optical modes. Inside…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Hashem Zoubi

Magnons in ferrimagnetic insulators such as yttrium iron garnet (YIG) have recently emerged as promising candidates for coherent information processing in microwave circuits. Here we demonstrate optical whispering gallery modes of a YIG…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Xufeng Zhang , Na Zhu , Chang-Ling Zou , Hong X. Tang

Brillouin light scattering (BLS) is a powerful experimental tool that can be used to get insights into the fundamental and applied properties of matter, like dispersions of quasiparticles in a solid, as well as their spatio-temporal…