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Photonic spin Hall effect mediated by bianisotropy

Optics 2019-05-01 v1

Abstract

Coupling of electric and magnetic responses of a scatterer known as bianisotropy enables rich physics and unique optical phenomena, including asymmetric absorption or reflection, one-way transparency, and photonic topological phases. Here we demonstrate yet another feature stemming from bianisotropic response, namely, polarization-dependent scattering of light by bianisotropic dielectric meta-atom with broken mirror symmetry, which yields a photonic analogue of spin Hall effect. Based on a simple dipole model, we explain the origin of the effect confirming our conclusions by experimental observation of photonic spin Hall effect both for a single meta-atom and for an array of them.

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@article{arxiv.1811.03319,
  title  = {Photonic spin Hall effect mediated by bianisotropy},
  author = {Dmitry V. Zhirihin and Sergey V. Li and Denis Y. Sokolov and Alexey P. Slobozhanyuk and Maxim A. Gorlach and Alexander B. Khanikaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.03319},
  year   = {2019}
}
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