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The influence of the excitation pulse length on ultrafast magnetization dynamics in nickel
A Fognini1, G Salvatella1, R Gort1
1Laboratory for Solid State Physics , Otto-Stern-Weg 1, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
The laser-induced demagnetization of a ferromagnet is caused by the temperature of the electron gas as well as the lattice temperature. For long excitation pulses, the two reservoirs are in thermal equilibrium. In contrast to a picosecond laser pulse, a femtosecond pulse causes a non-equilibrium between the electron gas and the lattice. By pump pulse length dependent optical measurements, we find that the magnetodynamics in Ni caused by a picosecond laser pulse can be reconstructed from the response to a femtosecond pulse. The mechanism responsible for demagnetization on the picosecond time scale is therefore contained in the femtosecond demagnetization experiment.
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