Optical spin hall effects in plasmonic chains

Nir Shitrit, Itay Bretner, Yuri Gorodetski, Vladimir Kleiner, Erez Hasman

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Abstract

Observation of optical spin Hall effects (OSHEs) manifested by a spin-dependent momentum redirection is presented. The effect occurring solely as a result of the curvature of the coupled localized plasmonic chain is regarded as the locally isotropic OSHE, while the locally anisotropic OSHE arises from the interaction between the optical spin and the local anisotropy of the plasmonic mode rotating along the chain. A wavefront phase dislocation was observed in a circular curvature, in which the dislocation strength was enhanced by the locally anisotropic effect.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2038-2042
Number of pages5
JournalNano Letters
Volume11
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 May 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Plasmonics
  • angular momentum
  • optical spin Hall effect
  • polarization

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