Spin Hall effect of light in metallic reflection
Optics
2011-09-29 v2
Abstract
We report the first measurement of the Spin Hall Effect of Light (SHEL) on an air-metal interface. The SHEL is a polarization-dependent out-of-plane shift on the reflected beam. For the case of metallic reflection with a linearly polarized incident light, both the spatial and angular variants of the shift are observed and are maximum for -45/45 deg polarization, but zero for pure s- and p-polarization. For an incoming beam with circular polarization states however, only the spatial out-of-plane shift is present.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1106.2009,
title = {Spin Hall effect of light in metallic reflection},
author = {N. Hermosa and A. M. Nugrowati and Andrea Aiello and J. P. Woerdman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.2009},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
improved figures;removed redundant discussion;change typo in eqn. 2b