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30 Jul-5 Aug 2017 Quy Nhon (Vietnam)

 

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Brillouin light scattering in optomagnonics
Yaroslav Blanter  1@  
1 : Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, -  Netherlands

Brillouin light scattering is an established technique to study magnons, the elementary excitations of a magnet. Its efficiency can potentially be enhanced by cavity effects that concentrate the light power in the magnet. Here, we study inelastic scattering of photons by a magnetic sphere that supports optical whispering gallery modes, in a configuration of light traveling perpendicular to the magnetization. We find light scattering in two regimes. For low angular momentum magnons, the light is scattered in the forward direction with a pronounced asymmetry in the Stokes and the anti-Stokes scattering probability, consistent with recent experiments. High angular momentum magnons back-scatter light into either the Stokes or anti-Stokes peaks. We further show that the light scattering in the latter regime permits mapping of the high angular momentum magnon dispersion.


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