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We study the interplay between intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and nonlinear photon-photon interactions in a nonparaxial, elliptically polarized fluid of light propagating in a bulk Kerr medium. We find that in situations where the nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-10 Giovanni I. Martone , Nicolas Cherroret

Spin-orbital coupling and interaction as intrinsic light fields characteristics have been extensively studied. Previous studies involve the spin angular momentum (SAM) carried by circular polarization and orbital angular momentum (OAM)…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-18 Jian Chen , Lihua Yu , Chenhao Wan , Qiwen Zhan

Interaction of spin and intrinsic orbital angular momentum of light is observed, as evidenced by length-dependent rotations of both spatial patterns and optical polarization in a cylindrically-symmetric isotropic optical fiber. Such…

Directional coupling of light in nanophotonic circuits has recently attracted increasing interest, with numerous experimental realizations based on broken rotational or mirror symmetries of the light-matter system. The most prominent…

We show, both theoretically and experimentally, that high-numerical-aperture (NA) optical microscopy is accompanied by strong spin-orbit interaction of light, which translates fine infomation about the specimen to the polarization degrees…

The spin-orbit interaction in a focused-reflected beam of light results in spatially non-uniform polarization in the beam cross-section due to the superposition of orthogonal field components and polarization-dependent interface reflection…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-02 Upasana Baishya , Nirmal K. Viswanathan

Optical spin and chirality play key roles in engineering photonic emission and light-matter interactions. Here we show that 3D evanescent coupling of guided modes by strongly confined waveguides can extrinsically produce optical spin and…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-26 Liang Fang , Jian Wang

The longitudinal components of orthogonal-circularly polarized fields carry a phase singularity that changes sign depending on the polarization handedness. The addition of orbital angular momentum adds to or cancels this singularity and…

The structural inversion asymmetry-induced spin-orbit interaction of conduction band electrons in zinc-blende and wurtzite semiconductor structures is analysed allowing for a three-dimensional (3D) character of the external electric field…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-12-30 Eduard Takhtamirov , Roderick V. N. Melnik

We study the directional excitation of optical surface waves controlled by the magnetic field of light. We theoretically predict that a spinning magnetic dipole develops a tunable unidirectional coupling of light to TE-polarized Bloch…

Optical isolation enables nonreciprocal manipulations of light with broad applications in optical communications. Optical isolation by rotating structures has drawn considerable attention due to its magnetic-free nature and unprecedented…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-17 Hongkang Shi , Yuqiong Cheng , Zheng Yang , Yuntian Chen , Shubo Wang

We study the band structure modulation and spin-Hall effect of a two-dimensional heavy-hole system with $k^3$-Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC), irradiated by linearly polarized light. We find that the band structure becomes anisotropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Ankita Bhattacharya , SK Firoz Islam

The discovery of the topological nature of free-space light and its quantum chiral behavior has recently raised large attention. This important scientific endeavor features spin-based integrated quantum technologies. Herein, we discuss a…

We consider eigenmodes of a ring resonator made of a circular dielectric waveguide. Taking into account the polarization corrections, which are responsible for the interaction of polarization and orbital properties of electromagnetic waves…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Yu. Bliokh , D. Yu. Frolov

We study the spin-dependent electronic transport through a one-dimensional ballistic quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In particular, we consider the effect of the spin-orbit interaction resulting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

The interplay of electric charge, spin, and orbital polarizations, coherently driven by picosecond long oscillations of light fields in spin-orbit coupled systems, is the foundation of emerging terahertz spintronics and orbitronics. The…

The interplay between time-reversal symmetry breaking and strong light-matter coupling in 2D gases brings intriguing aspects to polariton physics. This combination can lead to polarization/spin selective light-matter interaction in the…

The variation of polarization distribution of reflected beam at specular interface and far field caused by spin separation has been studied. Due to the diffraction effect, we find a distinct difference of light polarization at the two…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yu Jin , Zefang Wang , Yang Lv , Hao Liu , Ruifeng Liu , Pei Zhang , Hongrong Li , Hong Gao , Fuli Li

Spin-orbit interactions of light couple polarization and spatial degrees of freedom, underpinning phenomena such as the spin Hall effect of light. Although widely explored at interfaces and in tightly focused beams, their impact in…

The polarization controlled optical signal routing has many important applications in photonics such as polarization beam splitter. By using two-dimensional transmission lines with lumped elements, we experimentally demonstrate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Zhiwei Guo , Haitao Jiang , Yang Long , Kun Yu , Jie Ren , Chunhua Xue , Hong Chen