  Using spin-wave tomography (SWaT), we have investigated the excitation and
the propagation dynamics of optically-excited magnetoelastic waves, i.e.
hybridized modes of spin waves and elastic waves, in a garnet film. By using
time-resolved SWaT, we reveal the excitation dynamics of magnetoelastic waves
through coherent-energy transfer between optically-excited pure-elastic waves
and spin waves via magnetoelastic coupling. This process realizes frequency and
wavenumber selective excitation of spin waves at the crossing of the dispersion
relations of spin waves and elastic waves. Finally, we demonstrate that the
excitation mechanism of the optically-excited pure-elastic waves, which are the
source of the observed magnetoelastic waves, is dissipative in nature.

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