Geometric phase in optics: from wavefront manipulation to waveguiding

CP Jisha, S Nolte, A Alberucci - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Geometric phase is a unifying and central concept in physics, including optics. As a matter of
fact, optics played a pivotal role from the inception of this new paradigm, as some of the first …

Photonic Spin‐Hall Effect at Generic Interfaces

X Ling, Z Zhang, Z Dai, Z Wang, H Luo… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although the photonic spin‐Hall effect (PSHE) at optical interfaces has been widely studied
in past years, its physical origin remains obscure. Here, through studying the scatterings of …

Topology‐induced phase transitions in spin‐orbit photonics

X Ling, F Guan, X Cai, S Ma, HX Xu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Spin‐controlled vortex generation and spin‐Hall effect, two distinct effects discovered in
optics, have been extensively studied recently. However, while physical origins of two effects …

Enhanced optical spatial differential operations via strong spin-orbit interactions in an anisotropic epsilon-near-zero slab

W Xu, X Ling, D Xu, S Chen, S Wen, H Luo - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Several works on optical higher-order differential operations have recently attracted
attention, particularly in image processing for edge detection. However, the inefficient …

Topological differential microscopy based on the spin–orbit interaction of light in a natural crystal

B Song, SC Wen, W Shu - ACS Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
We experimentally demonstrate a two-dimensional topological differential microscopy based
on the spin–orbit interaction of light through a thin uniaxial crystal slab. First, a three …

Vortex mode decomposition of the topology-induced phase transitions in spin-orbit optics

X Ling, F Guan, Z Zhang, HX Xu, S Xiao, H Luo - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
The topology-induced phase transition (TPT) in spin-orbit optics refers to a process of
topological transition from one kind of spin-orbit interaction (eg, spin-controlled vortex …

Role of beam parameters in the spin-orbit interactions of light

Y Tan, J Chen, J Cheng, W Mei, Z Zhang, X Ling - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We employ a full-wave theory to systematically investigate two types of spin-orbit
interactions and their topological phase transitions for various light beams (eg, Laguerre …

Chirality-modulated photonic spin Hall effect in PT-symmetry

C Liang, D Liu, R Liu, D Deng, G Wang - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
The photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE), featured by a spin-dependent shift driven by its
polarization handedness, is proposed to facilitate the applications in precision metrology …

Enhancing the efficiency of the topological phase transitions in spin–orbit photonics

Z Zhang, J Cheng, W Mei, W Xiao, Z Wang… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
ABSTRACT A light beam reflected and refracted at a sharp interface can acquire a
momentum-dependent Pancharatnam–Berry (PB) phase, which produces a topological …

Spin-controlled photonics via temporal anisotropy

C Rizza, G Castaldi, V Galdi - Nanophotonics, 2023 - degruyter.com
Temporal metamaterials, based on time-varying constitutive properties, offer new exciting
possibilities for advanced field manipulations. In this study, we explore the capabilities of …