Flexible coherent control of plasmonic spin-Hall effect
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The surface plasmon polariton is an emerging candidate for miniaturizing optoelectronic circuits. Recent demonstrations of polarization-dependent splitting using metasurfaces, including focal-spot shifting and unidirectional propagation, allow us to exploit the spin degree of freedom in plasmonics. However, further progress has been hampered by the inability to generate more complicated and independent surface plasmon profiles for two incident spins, which work coherently together for more flexible and tunable functionalities. Here by matching the geometric phases of the nano-slots on silver to specific superimpositions of the inward and outward surface plasmon profiles for the two spins, arbitrary spin-dependent orbitals can be generated in a slot-free region. Furthermore, motion pictures with a series of picture frames can be assembled and played by varying the linear polarization angle of incident light. This spin-enabled control of orbitals is potentially useful for tip-free near-field scanning microscopy, holographic data storage, tunable plasmonic tweezers, and integrated optical components.
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The spin-controlled unidirectional coupling effect is very robust to the details of the system and equally appears with near 100%-efficiency at metal surfaces, nanofibers, and various waveguides.
“Moreover, the effect is very robust to the details of the system and equally appears with near 100%-efficiency at metal surfaces 46,47,49 , nanofibers 48,50,126 , and various waveguides 51,52,125,127,128 .”
From Spin–orbit interactions of light (2015) · cites this paper as [125]
The Abstract and Results (Geometric phase design scheme; page unavailable) describe spin-dependent surface-plasmon propagation at a silver–air interface, supporting the metal-surface example. They do not establish near-100% coupling efficiency or robustness to system details. The paper does not demonstrate the effect in nanofibers or the various waveguides, which the citing sentence assigns to other references. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredIn all systems studied, the incident light propagated along the transverse y-axis carrying usual SAM depending on its helicity: Sy inc ∝ σ.
“Indeed, in all systems 4 5 -5 2,125-1 28 the incident light propagated along the transverse y -axis carrying usual SAM depending on its helicity: S y inc ∝σ .”
From Spin–orbit interactions of light (2015) · cites this paper as [125]
The Results section, “Geometric phase design scheme” (page unavailable), describes normally incident light with left- or right-handed circular polarization, supporting the helicity-dependent spin component. But it places the metasurface in the x–y plane, so it does not support describing this paper’s incident light as propagating along the y-axis. It also does not establish the claim about all the other systems cited. (LLM, conf=0.85)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredSeveral experiments and numerical simulations demonstrated remarkable spin-controlled unidirectional coupling between circularly-polarized incident light and transversely-propagating surface or waveguide modes.
“Recently, several experiments and numerical simulations demonstrated remarkable spin-controlled unidirectional coupling between circularly-polarized incident light and transversely-propagating surface or waveguide modes 4 5 -5 2,125-1 28 , see Figs. 4b,c.”
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- Authors
- Xiao, S., Zhong, F., Liu, H., Zhu, S., & Li, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures (CN)
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- Liu, Hui
- Li, Jensen
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- 2015-09-29
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- 6
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- 8360-8360
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- Funders
- European Commission (630979)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (11374151, 61425018, 11321063, No. 11321063)
- Nanjing University
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Keywords
- surface plasmon polaritons, spin Hall effect, coherent control, metasurfaces, Berry phase, unidirectional propagation, plasmonic tweezers, holographic data storage, integrated photonics
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