Photonic Spin Hall Effect at Metasurfaces
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The spin Hall effect (SHE) of light is very weak because of the extremely small photon momentum and spin-orbit interaction. Here, we report a strong photonic SHE resulting in a measured large splitting of polarized light at metasurfaces. The rapidly varying phase discontinuities along a metasurface, breaking the axial symmetry of the system, enable the direct observation of large transverse motion of circularly polarized light, even at normal incidence. The strong spin-orbit interaction deviates the polarized light from the trajectory prescribed by the ordinary Fermat principle. Such a strong and broadband photonic SHE may provide a route for exploiting the spin and orbit angular momentum of light for information processing and communication.
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For nonparaxial beams, the simple association of SAM and IOAM with polarization and vortex is not valid; the SAM and IOAM become (3), and the total intrinsic AM is preserved, so part of the SAM is transferred to the IOAM (spin-to-orbital AM conversion).
“For nonparaxial beams, consisting of circularly-polarized plane waves with the wavevectors forming a cone with an opening angle θ (like in Fig. B2b), the SAM and IOAM become 8,27,96- 98”
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- Yin, X., Ye, Z., Rho, J., Wang, Y., & Zhang, X.
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- U.S. National Science Foundation (US)
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- 2013-03-22
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- 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
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Keywords
- photonic spin Hall effect, metasurfaces, spin-orbit interaction of light, circularly polarized light, phase discontinuity, normal incidence, orbital angular momentum of light, spin angular momentum, optical information processing
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