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中国物理学会期刊

铁磁异质结的远红外脉冲辐射及其光热调控研究

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.72.20230543

Pulsed far-infrared radiation of ferromagnetic heterojunction and its photothermal regulation

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.72.20230543
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  • 飞秒激光脉冲辐照在Pt/CoFe/Ta铁磁异质结上, 导致铁磁层中磁化强度超快淬灭并产生瞬态自旋流. 自旋流向重金属层扩散, 基于逆自旋霍尔效应在重金属层中转换成瞬态电荷流, 产生宽带远红外脉冲辐射. 本文通过两方面实验, 研究飞秒激光的光热效应对铁磁异质结产生远红外辐射的调控. 首先, 通过改变外加磁场的大小和方向, 研究远红外辐射脉冲振幅-磁场的磁滞回线. 与振动样品磁力计测量的磁滞回线相比, 远红外辐射脉冲振幅-磁场的磁滞回线表现出更小的矫顽力. 增大抽运光的能量密度, 发现样品的矫顽力进一步下降. 其次, 对Pt/CoFe/Ta三层异质结进行正向磁化饱和后施加一个反向的小磁场, 实验发现当入射的激光能量密度超过1.43 mJ/cm2时, 远红外辐射脉冲信号发生极性的反转. 上述两个实验结果不仅阐明飞秒激光脉冲的光热效应, 也为基于电子自旋的远红外辐射脉冲的调控提供新方法.

     

    Under illumination of a femtosecond laser pulse on the Pt/CoFe/Ta trilayer heterostructure, an impulsive spin current can be generated in the ferromagnetic layer due to the ultrafast demagnetization. The spin current is super-diffusively transported and injected into the neighboring heavy metal layers, and is converted into the transversal charge current due to the spin-orbit coupling, which is named inverse spin Hall effect. The transient charge current on a time scale of sub-picosecond gives rise to the electromagnetic radiation in the far-infrared range to the free space. In this work, we demonstrate two kinds of experiments to investigate the modulation of far-infrared emission by photo-thermal effect, which is due to the thermal energy deposed by light pulses on a short timescales. First, the amplitude of the emitted far-infrared pulse as a function of an applied magnetic field is measured, which shows a far-infrared hysteresis behavior. The coercive field of the sample obtained by far-infrared hysteresis is smaller than that obtained by the M-H hysteresis through vibrating sample magnetometer. In addition, the coercive field decreases with pump laser fluence increasing. Second, the control of spin polarization on an ultrafast timescale in the presence of a small magnetic field applied oppositely to that of the magnetization of the ferromagnetic sample. The amplitude of far-infrared time-domain signal reaches a maximum value at a pump fluence of 1.43 mJ/cm2. For the pump fluence larger than 1.43 mJ/cm2, the far-infrared pulse experiences a phase reversal. After the reversal, a decrease of the laser pump fluence cannot restore the original phase of the far-infrared pulse. The above two experimental results not only elucidate the photothermal effect of femtosecond laser pulses, but also provide a new method for controlling the far-infrared radiation pulses based on ultrafast spintronics. These results demonstrate that far-infrared emission spectroscopy can be used as an ultrafast optical method to investigate magnetic properties, such as the coercive field and anisotropy field of the samples.

     

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