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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 81, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.214440
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- Dutch nanotechnology initiative NanoNed
- de Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
- Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM)
- Russian Foundation [10-02-01008-a]
- EU [NMP3-SL-2008-214469, N 214810]
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We demonstrate experimentally that excitation of a Co-substituted ferrimagnetic yttrium iron garnet thin film with linearly polarized 100 fs laser pulses triggers large-angle magnetization precession with an amplitude, phase, and frequency determined by the characteristics of the laser pulse. The precession results from a light-induced anisotropy field with a characteristic lifetime of 20 ps, the direction of which is determined by the polarization of the light. Its strength for a pump intensity of 25 mJ/cm(2) is 250 G which is comparable to the intrinsic anisotropy of the sample. By choosing the proper laser-pulse parameters, we were able to excite a precession with an amplitude as large as 20 degrees and a precession frequency modified by up to 50%.
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