Selection rules for all-optical magnetic recording in iron garnet

A. Stupakiewicz (), K. Szerenos, M. D. Davydova, K. A. Zvezdin, A. K. Zvezdin, A. Kirilyuk and A. V. Kimel ()
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A. Stupakiewicz: Faculty of Physics, University of Bialystok
K. Szerenos: Faculty of Physics, University of Bialystok
M. D. Davydova: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)
K. A. Zvezdin: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)
A. K. Zvezdin: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)
A. Kirilyuk: Radboud University
A. V. Kimel: Radboud University

Nature Communications, 2019, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract Rapid growth of the area of ultrafast magnetism has allowed to achieve a substantial progress in all-optical magnetic recording with femtosecond laser pulses and triggered intense discussions about microscopic mechanisms responsible for this phenomenon. The typically used metallic medium nevertheless considerably limits the applications because of the unavoidable heat dissipation. In contrast, the recently demonstrated photo-magnetic recording in transparent dielectric garnet for all practical purposes is dissipation-free. This discovery raised question about selection rules, i.e. the optimal wavelength and the polarization of light, for such a recording. Here we report the computationally and experimentally identified workspace of parameters allowing photo-magnetic recording in Co-doped iron garnet using femtosecond laser pulses. The revealed selection rules indicate that the excitations responsible for the coupling of light to spins are d-d electron transitions in octahedral and tetrahedral Co-sublattices, respectively.

Date: 2019
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