Abstract
We report on terahertz emission from FeMnPt/Ru/FeMnPt and Pt/CoFeB/Ru/CoFeB/Pt synthetic antiferromagnet (SAF) structures upon irradiation by a femtosecond laser; the former is via the anomalous Hall effect, whereas the latter is through the inverse spin Hall effect. The antiparallel alignment of the two ferromagnetic layers leads to a terahertz emission peak amplitude that is almost double that for a corresponding single-layer or bilayer emitter with the same equivalent thickness. In addition, we demonstrate by both simulation and experiment that terahertz emission provides a powerful tool to probe the magnetization reversal processes of individual ferromagnetic layers in a SAF structure, as the terahertz signal is proportional to the vector difference of the magnetizations of the two ferromagnetic layers.
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