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Weak Measurements of Light Chirality with a Plasmonic Slit
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We examine, both experimentally and theoretically, an interaction of tightly focused polarized light with a slit on a metal surface supporting plasmon-polariton modes. Remarkably, this simple system can be highly sensitive to the polarization of the incident light and offers a perfect quantum weak measurement tool with a built-in postselection in the plasmon-polariton mode. We observe the plasmonic spin Hall effect in both coordinate and momentum spaces which is interpreted as weak measurements of the helicity of light with real and imaginary weak values determined by the input polarization. Our experiment combines the advantages of (i) quantum weak measurements, (ii) near-field plasmonic systems, and (iii) high-numerical aperture microscopy in employing the spin-orbit interaction of light and probing light chirality.
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“(ii) Focusing of circularly-polarized light by a high-numerical-aperture lens results in the generation of a spin-dependent optical vortex (i.e., helical phase producing orbital angular momentum) in the focal field.”
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“This helicity-dependent switching of the central intensity was observed in experiments 20,25 and employed for spin-controlled transmission of light via chiral nanoapertures 104 and AM-induced circular dichroism in non-chiral structures 105 .”
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“The most striking manifestation of this effect appears for vortex beams with = 1, Fig. 2c. According to the transformation (4), the z -component of the field has the vortex charge +σ . Therefore, for σ = 1 this component represents a charge-2 vortex with vanishing intensity in the beam center, while for σ = -1 this is a charge-0 vortex with maximum intensity in the center.”
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- Authors
- Gorodetski, Y., Bliokh, K. Y., Stein, B., Genet, C., Shitrit, N., Kleiner, V., Hasman, E., & Ebbesen, T. W.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- RIKEN (JP)
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2012-07-05
- Volume
- 109
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 013901-013901
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2011468611
- Cited by
- 218
- References
- 36
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- FWCI
- 9.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Keywords
- weak measurement, weak values, spin-orbit interaction of light, post-selection, near-field plasmonics, high numerical aperture microscopy
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