Spin wave emission from magnetic vortex cores measured by time-resolved magnetic x-ray microscopy

The investigation of spin wave dynamics in nanomagnetic systems is a key topic of modern magnetism. Here we demonstrate that the excitation of short propagating spin waves is possible in a stacked vortex pair system with opposite circulations and parallel cores. The emitted spin waves (L~100nm) were directly imaged by means of time-resolved scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (Maxymus). The observed frequencies were only limited by the width of the x-ray pulses in multi-bunch mode.