Nonreciprocity of backward volume spin wave beams excited by the curved focusing transducer

The focusing effect for spin waves excited by a curved micrometer-sized coplanar waveguide transducer on top of a 5-?m-thick epitaxial yttrium iron garnet film is studied by means of the micro-focused Mandelstam-Brillouin light scattering technique and micromagnetic simulations. The curvilinear transducer is designed to focus the backward volume spin waves on the in-plane bias magnetic field applied along the symmetry axis of the transducer. We show that two-dimensional maps of spin wave intensity exhibit nonreciprocal properties without mirror symmetry with respect to the magnetic field direction and the focusing effect. The observed effects are the consequence of nonreciprocity of the backward volume spin waves travelling at an angle toward the bias field direction. © 2018 Author(s).