Zusammenfassung
In optics, a light beam experiences a spatial shift in the beam plane upon total internal reflection. This shift is usually referred to as the Goos-Hanchen shift. When dealing with plane waves, it manifests itself as a phase shift between an incoming and reflected wave that depends on the wave vector component along the interface. In the experiments presented here, plane spin waves are excited in ...
Zusammenfassung
In optics, a light beam experiences a spatial shift in the beam plane upon total internal reflection. This shift is usually referred to as the Goos-Hanchen shift. When dealing with plane waves, it manifests itself as a phase shift between an incoming and reflected wave that depends on the wave vector component along the interface. In the experiments presented here, plane spin waves are excited in a 60-nm-thick Permalloy film and propagate towards the edge of the film. By means of time-resolved scanning Kerr microscopy, we are able to directly detect a phase shift between the incoming and reflected wave. With the help of a numerical model, we show that this phase shift naturally occurs for spin waves in the dipolar regime.