DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5452.473. All-Optical Magnetic Resonance in Semiconductors

All-Optical Magnetic Resonance in Semiconductors

10.1126/science.287.5452.473

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Abstract

A scheme is proposed wherein nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) can be induced and monitored using only optical fields. In analogy to radio-frequency fields used in traditional NMR, circularly polarized light creates electron spins in semiconductors whose hyperfine coupling could tip nuclear moments. Time-resolved Faraday rotation experiments were performed in which the frequency of electron Larmor precession was used as a magnetometer of local magnetic fields experienced by electrons in n-type gallium arsenide. Electron spin excitation by a periodic optical pulse train appears not only to prepare a hyperpolarized nuclear moment but also to destroy it resonantly at magnetic fields proportional to the pulse frequency. This resonant behavior is in many ways supportive of a simple model of optically induced NMR, but a curious discrepancy between one of the observed frequencies and classic NMR values suggests that this phenomenon is more complex.

Bibliography

Kikkawa, J. M., & Awschalom, D. D. (2000). All-Optical Magnetic Resonance in Semiconductors. Science, 287(5452), 473â476.

Authors 2

J. M. Kikkawa (first)
D. D. Awschalom (additional)

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Supported by grant DAAG55-98-1-0366 from the Army Research Office by grant N00014-99-1096 from DARPA/ONR and by grants DMR-9701072 and QUEST STC DMR-91-20007 from NSF.

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