Cover Feature: Excitation of Spin Waves in Ferrimagnetic Alloy via Optical Transient Grating Spectroscopy (Adv. Photonics Res. 2/2026)
Optical Transient Grating Spectroscopy In their Research Article (10.1002/adpr.202500233), Alexei A. Maznev, Riccardo Cucini, and co-workers present an approach for exciting standing dipolar spin waves with a controlled wave vector in a ferrimagnetic thin film. By separating magnons from phonons, transient grating spectroscopy emerges as a powerful optical gateway to multiscale magnonics.
Authors
- Clemens von Korff Schmising (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3159-3489)
- Deepak Dagur (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6825-8337)
- G. Rossi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5588-1306)
- G. Panaccione (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0122-4041)
- Marta Brioschi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5947-8557)
- Stefano Bonetti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9352-2411)
- Giovanni Vinai
- Riccardo Cucini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8516-1409)
- Pietro Carrara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1937-7591)
- Nupur N. Khatu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4970-0549)
- Alexei A. Maznev
- Peter R. Miedaner
- Nadia Berndt
- Dieter Engel
Institutions
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Trieste (IT)
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice (IT)
- University of Milan (IT)
- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. (IT)
- Sorbonne Université (FR)
- Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IT)
- Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (DE)
- Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (FR)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Photonics Research
- Published
- 2026-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adpr.70174
- Primary Topic
- Magnetic properties of thin films
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00