Transverse Photo-Voltage Induced by Circularly Polarized Light
Optics
2015-05-13 v1
Abstract
We discovered that when circularly polarized light is obliquely incident on a two-dimensional metallic photonic crystal slabs, electrical voltage is induced perpendicularly to the incident plane. Signal sign is reversed by changing the sense of polarization or incident angle. The origin of this transverse photo-induced voltage is explained in terms of the force linear in light intensity induced by the asymmetry brought by angular momentum of incident light.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0904.4800,
title = {Transverse Photo-Voltage Induced by Circularly Polarized Light},
author = {Takafumi Hatano and Teruya Ishihara and Sergei G. Tikhodeev and Nikolay A. Gippius},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.4800},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 figures