Recent advances in the spin Hall effect of light

X Ling, X Zhou, K Huang, Y Liu, CW Qiu… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The spin Hall effect (SHE) of light, as an analogue of the SHE in electronic systems, is a
promising candidate for investigating the SHE in semiconductor spintronics/valleytronics …

Spin–orbit interactions of light

KY Bliokh, FJ Rodríguez-Fortuño, F Nori, AV Zayats - Nature Photonics, 2015 - nature.com
Light carries both spin and orbital angular momentum. These dynamical properties are
determined by the polarization and spatial degrees of freedom of light. Nano-optics …

Giant photonic spin Hall effect empowered by polarization-dependent quasibound states in the continuum in compound grating waveguide structures

F Wu, T Liu, Y Long, S Xiao, G Chen - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) plays an important role in both fundamental science
and precision metrology. In this paper, we theoretically propose a polarization-dependent …

Goos–Hänchen and Imbert–Fedorov beam shifts: an overview

KY Bliokh, A Aiello - Journal of Optics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider reflection and transmission of polarized paraxial light beams at a plane
dielectric interface. The field transformations taking into account a finite beam width are …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial gauge fields in materials and engineered systems

M Aidelsburger, S Nascimbene, N Goldman - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2018 - Elsevier
Artificial gauge fields are currently realized in a wide range of physical settings. This
includes solid-state devices but also engineered systems, such as photonic crystals …

Internal flows and energy circulation in light beams

A Bekshaev, KY Bliokh, M Soskin - Journal of Optics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We review optical phenomena associated with the internal energy redistribution which
accompany propagation and transformations of monochromatic light fields in homogeneous …

Experimental observation of the spin Hall effect of light on a nanometal film via weak measurements

X Zhou, Z Xiao, H Luo, S Wen - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2012 - APS
We theorize the spin Hall effect of light (SHEL) on a nanometal film and demonstrate it
experimentally via weak measurements. A general propagation model to describe the …

Enhanced and switchable spin Hall effect of light near the Brewster angle on reflection

H Luo, X Zhou, W Shu, S Wen, D Fan - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular …, 2011 - APS
We theorize an enhanced and switchable spin Hall effect (SHE) of light near the Brewster
angle on reflection and demonstrate it experimentally. The obtained spin-dependent splitting …

Spin Hall effect of light: from fundamentals to recent advancements

M Kim, Y Yang, D Lee, Y Kim, H Kim… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The spin Hall effect of light (SHEL) is the microscopic splitting of light into two circular
polarizations at the optical interface along the perpendicular direction. With the advent of …

Spatial differential operation and edge detection based on the geometric spin Hall effect of light

S He, J Zhou, S Chen, W Shu, H Luo, S Wen - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Unlike the conventional spin Hall effect of light (SHEL) originating from the light-matter
interaction, the spin-dependent splitting in the geometric SHEL is purely a geometric effect …