This Perspective surveys the state-of-the-art and future prospects of science and technology
employing nanoconfined light (nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics) in combination with …

Launching and controlling magnons with laser pulses opens up new routes for applications
including optomagnetic switching and all-optical spin wave emission and enables new …

We present the concept of the optomagnonic logic gate, where interference of spin waves
excited by femtosecond laser pulses at multiple points by the inverse Faraday effect in a …

We demonstrate optical nonthermal excitation of exchange dominated spin waves of
different orders in a magnetophotonic crystal. The magnetophotonic structure consists of a …

Excitation of spin waves of a required frequency and directional spectrum is among the
crucial tasks in optomagnonics. Here we investigate the generation of spin waves in an iron …

We present an experimental study of ultrafast optical excitation of magnetostatic surface spin
wave (MSSW) packets and their spectral properties in thin films of pure iron. As the packets …

We demonstrate phase control of magnons in the van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS 3
using optical excitation by polarized light. The sign of the coherent precession of spin …

We present a concept of a tunable optical excitation of spin waves and filtering their spectra
in a ferromagnetic film with 180° Néel domain wall. We show by means of micromagnetic …

The uprising interest in the integration of the magneto-optical iron garnets into the field of
quantum information processing imposes requirements for the dam** parameter and …

A magnetophotonic crystal (MPC) with a locally etched magnetic layer is proposed for all-
optical excitation of magnetization precession in the confined area. When the sample is …