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Spin-Hall effect of light at a tilted polarizer

Optics 2019-09-24 v2

Abstract

We describe the spin-Hall effect of light (as well as the angular Goos-H\"{a}nchen effect) at a tilted linear-dichroic plate, such as a usual linear polarizer. Although the spin-Hall effect at a tilted polarizer was previous associated with the geometric spin-Hall effect of light (which was contrasted to the regular spin-Hall effect) [J. Korger et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113902 (2014)], we show that the effect is actually an example of the regular spin-Hall effect that occurs at tilted anisotropic plates [K. Y. Bliokh et al., Optica 3, 1039 (2016)]. Moreover, our approach reveals the angular spin-Hall shift, which is absent in the "geometric" approach. We verify our theory experimentally using the method of quantum weak measurements.

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@article{arxiv.1907.08795,
  title  = {Spin-Hall effect of light at a tilted polarizer},
  author = {K. Y. Bliokh and C. Prajapati and C. T. Samlan and N. K. Viswanathan and F. Nori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.08795},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Opt. Lett