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We demonstrate analytically that gravitational waves, upon interacting with co-propagating electromagnetic radiation in a plasma, induce distinctive sidebands on the modulated light, thereby providing a detectable signature of their…

General Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Martin W. McCall , Stefanos Fr. Koufidis

Electrical detection of spins is an essential tool in understanding the dynamics of spins in semiconductor devices, providing valuable insights for applications ranging from optoelectronics and spintronics to quantum information processing.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 C. C. Lo , M. Urdampilleta , P. Ross , M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba , J. Mansir , S. A. Lyon , M. L. W. Thewalt , J. J. L. Morton

We experimentally characterize the positions of the diffraction maxima of a phase grating on a screen, for laser light at oblique incidence (so-called off-plane diffraction or conical diffraction). We discuss the general case of off-plane…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-12 Georg Heuberger , Juergen Klepp , Jinxin Guo , Yasuo Tomita , Martin Fally

Controlling the directionality of spin waves is a key ingredient in wave-based computing methods such as magnonics. In this paper, we demonstrate this particular aspect by using an all-optical point-like source of continuous spin waves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 S. Muralidhar , R. Khymyn , A. A. Awad , A. Alemán , D. Hanstorp , J. Åkerman , .

We propose an optical read-out scheme allowing a demonstration of principle of information extraction below the diffraction limit. This technique, which could lead to improvement in data read-out density onto optical discs, is independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vincent Delaubert , Nicolas Treps , Gao Bo , Claude Fabre

Magneto-optical techniques have become essential tools in spintronics, enabling the investigation of spin dynamics in the ultrafast regime. A key challenge in this field has been to accurately isolate the contributions to magneto-optical…

Almost one and a half centuries ago, Ernst Abbe [1] and shortly after Lord Rayleigh [2] showed that when an optical lens is illuminated by a plane wave, a diffraction-limited spot with a radius 0.61*lambda/sin(alpha) is obtained, where…

The frequency difference between two oppositely propagating spin waves can be used to probe several interesting magnetic properties, such as the Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Propagating spin wave spectroscopy is a technique that…

Optical diffraction limit has been a long-term scientific issue since Ernst Abbe first introduced the concept in 1873. It is a constraint on the smallest light spot that can be achieved. Substantial effort has been invested in the past…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-03 Yanwen Hu , Shenhe Fu , Zhigui Deng , Siqi Zhu , Hao Yin , Yongyao Li , Zhen Li , Zhenqiang Chen

We present the geometric optics expansion for circularly polarized gravitational waves on a curved spacetime background, to subleading order. We call spin optics to the subleading order geometric optics expansion, which involves modifying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Pravin Kumar Dahal

The photon spin is an important resource for quantum information processing as is the electron spin in spintronics. However, for subwavelength confined optical excitations, polarization as a global property of a mode cannot be defined.…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-11 Enno Krauss , Gary Razinskas , Dominik Köck , Swen Grossmann , Bert Hecht

On-chip manipulating and controlling the temporal and spatial evolution of light is of crucial importance for information processing in future planar integrated nanophotonics. The spin and orbital angular momentum of light, which can be…

The visualized diffraction patterns of surface spin wave excited by arbitrarily oriented linear transducer are investigated experimentally in the plane of tangentially magnetized ferrite film for the case where the transducer length D is…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-30 A. Yu. Annenkov , S. V. Gerus , E. H. Lock

Spin waves propagating in magnetic materials exhibit nonlinear behavior at large amplitudes due to the competition between excitation and relaxation, providing an attractive platform for exploring nonlinear wave dynamics. In particular,…

The observation of gravitational waves has opened a new window into the Universe through gravitational-wave astronomy. However, high-frequency gravitational waves remain undetected. In this work, we propose that spin systems can be employed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Jiamin Liang , Mingqiu Li , Yu Gao , Wei Ji , Sichun Sun , Qi-Shu Yan

We perform micromagnetic simulations to investigate the propagation of spin-wave beams through spin-wave optical elements. Despite spin-wave propagation in magnetic media being strongly anisotropic, we use axicons to excite spinwave…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Marc Vogel , Burkard Hillebrands , Georg von Freymann

Spin-wave propagation in an assembly of microfabricated 20 nm thick, 2.5 {\mu}m wide Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) waveguides is studied using propagating spin-wave spectroscopy (PSWS) and phase resolved micro-focused Brillouin Light Scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 M. Collet , O. Gladii , M. Evelt , V. Bessonov , L. Soumah , P. Bortolotti , S. O Demokritov , Y. Henry , V. Cros , M. Bailleul , V. E. Demidov , A. Anane

Spin accumulation and spin precession in single-layer graphene are studied by non-local spin valve measurements at room temperature. The dependence of the non-local magnetoresistance on electrode spacing is investigated and the results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-20 Wei Han , K. Pi , W. Bao , K. M. McCreary , Yan Li , W. H. Wang , C. N. Lau , R. K. Kawakami

Low-energy magnonic logic circuits are an actively developing field of modern magnetism. The potential benefits of magnonics for data processing are vitally dependent on units based on non-reciprocal propagation of spin waves in analogy to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-01 P. I. Gerevenkov , Ia. A. Filatov , A. M. Kalashnikova , N. E. Khokhlov

Diffraction patterns of electrons are believed to resemble those of electromagnetic waves (EMW). I performed a series of experiments invoked to show that the periodicity of peaks in the diffraction diagram of electrons is concerned with the…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-23 Victor V. Demjanov