Maragkou, Maria, Richards, Caryl E., Ostatnický, Tomas, Grundy, Alastair J. D., Zajac, Joanna, Hugues, Maxime, Langbein, Wolfgang Werner ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9786-1023 and Lagoudakis, Pavlos G. 2011. Optical analogue of the spin hall effect in a photonic cavity. Optics Letters 36 (7) , pp. 1095-1097. 10.1364/OL.36.001095 |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.001095
Abstract
We observe anisotropy in the polarization flux generated in a GaAs/AlAs photonic cavity by optical illumination, equivalent to spin currents in strongly coupled microcavities. Polarization rotation of the scattered photons around the Rayleigh ring is due to the TE–TM splitting of the cavity mode. Resolving the circular polarization components of the transmission reveals a separation of the polarization flux in momentum space. These observations constitute the optical analogue of the spin Hall effect.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Physics and Astronomy |
Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
Publisher: | Optical Society of America |
ISSN: | 0146-9592 |
Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2022 08:12 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/27573 |
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