Optical Spin Hall Effect
Abstract
A remarkable analogy is established between the well-known spin Hall effect and the polarization dependence of Rayleigh scattering of light in microcavities. This dependence results from the strong spin effect in elastic scattering of exciton polaritons: if the initial polariton state has a zero spin and is characterized by some linear polarization, the scattered polaritons become strongly spin polarized. The polarization in the scattered state can be positive or negative dependent on the orientation of the linear polarization of the initial state and on the direction of scattering. Very surprisingly, spin polarizations of the polaritons scattered clockwise and anticlockwise have different signs. The optical spin Hall effect is possible due to strong longitudinal-transverse splitting and finite lifetime of exciton polaritons in microcavities.
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Recently substantially longer polariton lifetimes γC^-1 ∼ 200 ps and much longer travel distances (hundreds of microns to millimeters) have been achieved.
“We note, however, at this point that recently substantially longer polariton lifetimes γ -1 C ∼ 200 ps and much longer travel distances (hundreds of microns to millimeters) have been achieved [20, 21].”
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- Authors
- Kavokin, A., Malpuech, G., & Glazov, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Southampton (GB)
- Université Blaise Pascal (FR)
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2005-09-19
- Volume
- 95
- Issue
- 13
- Pages
- 136601-136601
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2088019151
- Cited by
- 445
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 4.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (acceptedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Strong Light-Matter Interactions
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Keywords
- optical spin Hall effect, exciton-polaritons, Rayleigh scattering, polarization dependence, spin polarization, microcavities, longitudinal-transverse splitting, finite lifetime, elastic scattering, circularly polarized light
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