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All-optical spin-wave control

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Spin waves show promise as a means of transporting information in integrated magnetic devices, but convenient ways to control their properties are required. Now directional control of spin-wave emission using photonics has been demonstrated in an all-optical pump–probe experiment.

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Figure 1: Schematic for the all-optical demonstration of directional control of propagating spin waves.

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  1. Mark R. Freeman and Zhu Diao are in the Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2E1, Canada, and the National Institute for Nanotechnology, Edmonton T6G 2M9, Canada,

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Freeman, M., Diao, Z. All-optical spin-wave control. Nature Photon 6, 643–645 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2012.241

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