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Optical analogue of the spin Hall effect in a photonic cavity |
Optics Letters, Vol. 36, Issue 7, pp. 1095-1097 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.001095
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Abstract
We observe anisotropy in the polarization flux generated in a GaAs/AlAs photonic cavity by optical illumination, equivalent to spin currents in strongly coupled microcavities. Polarization rotation of the scattered photons around the Rayleigh ring is due to the TE–TM splitting of the cavity mode. Resolving the circular polarization components of the transmission reveals a separation of the polarization flux in momentum space. These observations constitute the optical analogue of the spin Hall effect.
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OCIS Codes
(080.0080) Geometric optics : Geometric optics
(290.5870) Scattering : Scattering, Rayleigh
(350.5500) Other areas of optics : Propagation
(240.3695) Optics at surfaces : Linear and nonlinear light scattering from surfaces
ToC Category:
Physical Optics
History
Original Manuscript: January 12, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: February 4, 2011
Published: March 18, 2011
Citation
Maria Maragkou, Caryl E. Richards, Tomas Ostatnický, Alastair J. D. Grundy, Joanna Zajac, Maxime Hugues, Wolfgang Langbein, and Pavlos G. Lagoudakis, "Optical analogue of the spin Hall effect in a photonic cavity," Opt. Lett. 36, 1095-1097 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-36-7-1095
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