Rare-earth-doped laser materials show strong prospects for quantum information storage and processing, as well as for biological imaging, due to their high-Q 4f↔4f optical transitions. However, the inability to optically detect single rare-earth dopants has prevented these materials from reaching their full potential. Here we detect a single photostable Pr(3+) ion in yttrium aluminium garnet na...

Abstract We propose and experimentally demonstrate a means of broadband phonon-magnon interconversion that relies on combining magnetoelastic coupling with translational symmetry breaking in the important experimental material yttrium iron garnet (YIG). As well as being interest for its basic physics, this quasiparticle mechanism adds to range effects potentially find useful application hybrid ...

Rare-earth iron garnet thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) have recently attracted a great deal of attention for spintronics applications. Bismuth substituted garnets are particularly popular among these various because Bi3+ larger ion radius can adjust the lattice constant, strain state, and PMA films. In this paper, Tm2BiFe5O12 (TmBiIG) Y2BiFe5O12 (YBiIG) series thicknesse...

Nonlinear magnetic resonance is studied in an in-plane magnetized yttrium iron garnet (YIG) film. For YIG films perpendicular to the plane, effect referred as foldover well known. It arises because precession frequency increases with deviation of magnetization. When field reduced, remains resonant demagnetizing decreases The signal disappears when radio pump power insufficient maintain a nonequ...

Yttrium iron garnet Y3Fe2(FeO4)3 (YIG) has a uniquely low magnetic damping for spin waves, which makes it perfect material magnonic devices. Spin waves typically exist in the microwave frequency range and their wavelength can be decreased to nanoscale. Their dispersion YIG waveguides depends on strength orientation of bias field. It may possible explo...