We experimentally studied a strongly coupled magnon-photon system via microwave transmission measurements. An antiresonance, i.e., the suppression of the microwave transmission, is observed, indicating a relative phase change between the magnon response and the driving microwave field. We show that this antiresonance feature can be used to interpret the phase evolution of the coupled magnon-microwave system and apply this technique to reveal the phase evolution of magnon dark modes. Our work provides a standard procedure for the phase analysis of strongly coupled systems, enabling the phase characterization of each subsystem, and can be generally applied to other strongly coupled systems.

• Received 9 June 2016
• Revised 7 July 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.054403