Photonic Spin Hall Effect in Waveguides Composed of Two Types of Single-Negative Metamaterials

The polarization controlled optical signal routing has many important applications in photonics such as polarization beam splitter. By using two-dimensional transmission lines with lumped elements, we experimentally demonstrate the selective excitation of guided modes in waveguides composed of two k...

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Autores principales: Guo, Zhiwei, Jiang, Haitao, Long, Yang, Yu, Kun, Ren, Jie, Xue, Chunhua, Chen, Hong
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5552733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28798319
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08171-y
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author Guo, Zhiwei
Jiang, Haitao
Long, Yang
Yu, Kun
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Xue, Chunhua
Chen, Hong
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description The polarization controlled optical signal routing has many important applications in photonics such as polarization beam splitter. By using two-dimensional transmission lines with lumped elements, we experimentally demonstrate the selective excitation of guided modes in waveguides composed of two kinds of single-negative metamaterials. A localized, circularly polarized emitter placed near the interface of the two kinds of single-negative metamaterials only couples with one guided mode with a specific propagating direction determined by the polarization handedness of the source. Moreover, this optical spin-orbit locking phenomenon, also called the photonic spin Hall effect, is robust against interface fluctuations, which may be very useful in the manipulation of electromagnetic signals.
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spelling pubmed-55527332017-08-14 Photonic Spin Hall Effect in Waveguides Composed of Two Types of Single-Negative Metamaterials Guo, Zhiwei Jiang, Haitao Long, Yang Yu, Kun Ren, Jie Xue, Chunhua Chen, Hong Sci Rep Article The polarization controlled optical signal routing has many important applications in photonics such as polarization beam splitter. By using two-dimensional transmission lines with lumped elements, we experimentally demonstrate the selective excitation of guided modes in waveguides composed of two kinds of single-negative metamaterials. A localized, circularly polarized emitter placed near the interface of the two kinds of single-negative metamaterials only couples with one guided mode with a specific propagating direction determined by the polarization handedness of the source. Moreover, this optical spin-orbit locking phenomenon, also called the photonic spin Hall effect, is robust against interface fluctuations, which may be very useful in the manipulation of electromagnetic signals. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5552733/ /pubmed/28798319 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08171-y Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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