Realizing spin-dependent gauge field with biaxial metamaterials

Abstract

Artificial magnetic field in electromagnetism is becoming an emerging way as a robust control of light based on its geometric and topological nature. Other than demonstrating topological photonics properties in the diffractive regime using photonic crystals or arrays of waveguides, it will be of great interest if similar manipulations can be done simply in the long wavelength limit, in which only a few optical parameters can be used to describe the system, making the future optical component design much easier. Here, by designing and fabricating a metamaterial with split dispersion surface, we provide a straight-forward experimental realization of spin-dependent gauge field in the real space using a biaxial material. A "magnetic force bending" for light of desired pseudospins is visualized experimentally by such a gauge field as a manifestation of optical spin Hall effect. Such a demonstration is potentially useful to develop pseudospin optics, topological components and spin-enabled transformation optical devices.

18 pages, 4 figures

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