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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 24, Issue 8, Pages 8471-8479Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.008471
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Science and Engineering under Award DOE [DE-SC0010679]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0010679] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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The transverse spin angular momentum of light has recently received tremendous attention as it adds a new degree of freedom for controlling light-matter interactions. In this work we demonstrate the generation of transverse spin angular momentum by the weakly-guided mode of semiconductor nanowires. The evanescent field of these modes in combination with the transversality condition rigorously accounts for the occurrence of transverse spin angular momentum. The intriguing and nontrivial spin properties of optical modes in semiconductor nanowires are of high interest for a broad range of new applications including chiral optical trapping, quantum information processing, and nanophotonic circuitry. (C) 2016 Optical Society of America
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