Observation of the Spin-Based Plasmonic Effect in Nanoscale Structures
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Observation of surface-plasmon phenomena that are dependent upon the handedness of the circularly polarized incident light (spin) is presented. The polarization-dependent near-field intensity distribution obtained in our experiment is attributed to the presence of a geometric phase arising from the interaction of light with an anisotropic and inhomogeneous nanoscale structure. A near-field vortex surface mode with a spin-dependent topological charge was obtained in a plasmonic microcavity. The remarkable phenomenon of polarization-sensitive focusing in a plasmonic structure was also demonstrated.
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Breaking the cylindrical symmetry of a nonparaxial field produces spin-Hall effect shifts.
“Breaking the cylindrical symmetry of a nonparaxial field also produces spin-Hall effect shifts 28- 33 .”
From Spin–orbit interactions of light (2015) · cites this paper as [29]
The passage on p. 8 reports a spin-dependent transverse focal shift in a hemi-circular plasmonic lens and identifies it as a manifestation of the optical spin-Hall effect. The paper describes an asymmetric structure, but does not establish the claim’s specific mechanism of breaking the cylindrical symmetry of a nonparaxial field. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredIlluminating only the x>0 half of a high-NA lens results in a subwavelength transverse shift of the focal spot: Y' ∝ σ/k.
“For example, illuminating only the x > 0 half of a high-NA lens results in the subwavelength transverse shift of the focal spot 8,28- 30 : ′ Y ∝σ / k .”
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The discussion of the plasmonic focusing lens (p. 8) reports a spin-dependent transverse focal shift of about 200 nm. But the device is a hemi-circular coupling grating illuminated by circularly polarized plane waves, not a high-NA lens with only its x>0 half illuminated; the passage also does not clearly establish the stated Y′ ∝ σ/k relation. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe spin-to-orbital AM conversion can be interpreted as an azimuthal spin-Hall effect in cylindrically-symmetric fields; breaking this symmetry results in a pronounced spin-Hall effect in the direction orthogonal to the symmetry-breaking axis.
“The spin-to-orbital AM conversion can be interpreted as an azimuthal spin-Hall effect in cylindrically-symmetric fields 24,26,112 . Breaking this symmetry results in a pronounced spin-Hall effect in the direction orthogonal to the symmetry-breaking axis 8,28- 33 .”
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- Authors
- Gorodetski, Y., Niv, A., Kleiner, V., & Hasman, E.
- Affiliations
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2008-07-25
- Volume
- 101
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 043903-043903
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Keywords
- circularly polarized light, handedness, surface plasmons, Berry phase, near-field intensity distribution, topological charge
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