Generalized analytic formula for spin Hall effect of light: shift enhancement and interface independence

Autor: Kim Minkyung, Lee Dasol, Kim Yeseul, Rho Junsuk
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Nanophotonics, Vol 11, Iss 11, Pp 2803-2809 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2192-8614
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0794
Popis: The spin Hall effect of light (SHEL) is the microscopic spin-dependent splitting of light at an optical interface. Whereas the spin Hall shift under linearly polarized light is well-formulated, studies on the SHEL under elliptically or circularly polarized light have primarily relied on numerical computation. In this work, an explicit analytic formula for the spin Hall shift is derived under arbitrarily polarized incidence. Furthermore, from this explicit expression, we demonstrate that the spin Hall shift can be enhanced at any incident angle by using polarization degree of freedom and is independent of the Fresnel coefficients of an interface under circularly polarized light. The analytic formula will help us understand the SHEL under general polarization intuitively and realize unprecedented modulation of the SHEL.
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