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LIGHT-SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS
卷 4, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2015.63
关键词
geometric phase; metamaterial; photonic spin Hall effect
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11274106, 11474089, 11447010]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2014M562198]
- Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department of China [13B003]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province [2015JJ3026]
The photonic spin Hall effect (SHE) in the reflection and refraction at an interface is very weak because of the weak spin-orbit interaction. Here, we report the observation of a giant photonic SHE in a dielectric-based metamaterial. The metamaterial is structured to create a coordinate-dependent, geometric Pancharatnam-Berry phase that results in an SHE with a spin-dependent splitting in momentum space. It is unlike the SHE that occurs in real space in the reflection and refraction at an interface, which results from the momentum-dependent gradient of the geometric Rytov-Vladimirskii-Berry phase. We theorize a unified description of the photonic SHE based on the two types of geometric phase gradient, and we experimentally measure the giant spin-dependent shift of the beam centroid produced by the metamaterial at a visible wavelength. Our results suggest that the structured metamaterial offers a potential method of manipulating spin-polarized photons and the orbital angular momentum of light and thus enables applications in spin-controlled nanophotonics.
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