Parametric generation of spin waves in nano-scaled magnonic conduits

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the use of parallel pumping to generate and amplify spin waves in a 100 nm-wide magnonic nano-conduit, revealing non-resonant dipolar spin wave excitation and a large relaxation time, indicating potential for nano-scale magnonic devices.

Contribution

It provides the first investigation of parallel pumping in nano-scaled magnonic conduits, showing its feasibility despite reduced efficiency and identifying key excitation and relaxation characteristics.

Findings

Non-resonant dipolar spin wave excitation is favored.

Large spin-wave relaxation time up to 115 ns observed.

Parallel pumping threshold remains reasonably small at nano-scale.

Abstract

The research feld of magnonics proposes a low-energy wave-logic computation technology based on spin waves to complement the established CMOS technology and provide a basis for emerging unconventional computation architectures. However, magnetic damping is a limiting factor for all-magnonic logic circuits and multi-device networks, ultimately rendering mechanisms to effciently manipulate and amplify spin waves a necessity. In this regard, parallel pumping is a versatile tool since it allows to selectively generate and amplify spin waves. While extensively studied in microscopic systems, nano-scaled systems are lacking investigation to assess the feasibility and potential future use of parallel pumping in magnonics. Here, we investigate a longitudinally magnetized 100 nm-wide magnonic nano-conduit using space and time-resolved micro-focused Brillouin-light-scattering spectroscopy. Employing parallel pumping to generate spin waves, we observe that the non-resonant excitation of dipolar spin waves is favored over the resonant excitation of short wavelength exchange spin waves. In addition, we utilize this technique to access the effective spin-wave relaxation time of an individual nano-conduit, observing a large relaxation time up to (115.0 +- 7.6) ns. Despite the significant decrease of the pumping effciency in the investigated nano-conduit, a reasonably small threshold is found rendering parallel pumping feasible on the nano-scale.