Control of transport phenomena in magnetic heterostructures by wavelength modulation

2021

We demonstrate the tuneablity of the ultrafast energy flow in magnetic/non-magnetic bilayer structures by changing the wavelength of the optical excitation. This is achieved by an advanced description of the temperature based $\mu$T-model that explicitly considers the wavelength- and layer-dependent absorption profile within multilayer structures. For the exemplary case of a Ni/Au bilayer, our simulations predict that the energy flow from Ni to Au is reversed when changing the wavelength of the excitation from the infrared to the ultraviolet spectral range. These predictions are fully supported by characteristic signatures in the magneto-optical Kerr traces of the Ni/Au model system. Our re…