The interaction between ultrafast lasers and magnetic materials is an appealing topic. It not
only involves interesting fundamental questions that remain inconclusive and hence need …

Laser pulses are the shortest stimulus known to control the magnetization of materials and to
switch magnetic devices on the picosecond to femtosecond timescales. Femtosecond laser …

Optical manipulation of magnetization with femtosecond laser pulses has opened a new
paradigm shift in magnetization and spin dynamics. Since the very first demonstration of …

With the development of laser and magneto-optical technology and the discovery of a broad
range of magnetic quantum materials exhibiting exotic properties and new physics, ultrafast …

We review the phenomenology of light-induced ultrafast magnetization dynamics, with
emphasis on metallic compounds. The interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with …

We bridge an essential knowledge gap on the understanding of all-optical ultrafast switching
in ferrimagnets, namely, the connection between atomistic spin dynamics methods and …

When exciting a magnetic material with a femtosecond laser pulse, the amplitude of
magnetization is no longer constant and can decrease within a time scale comparable to the …

We investigate the dependency of all-optical magnetization switching on the properties of
the exciting laser pulse by specifically tailoring all accessible laser parameters—pulse …

Ultrafast laser control of magnetism is one of the most exciting and challenging issues in
physics and technology. Such a technique may provide the solution to the need for an ever …

Synthetic ferrimagnets are composite magnetic structures formed from two or more anti-
ferromagnetically coupled magnetic sublattices with different magnetic moments. Here, we …