Focused linearly-polarized light scattering from a silver nanowire: Experimental characterization of optical spin-Hall effect
arXiv:2008.12245 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.103.013520
Abstract
Spin-orbit interactions (SOI) are a set of sub-wavelength optical phenomenon in which spin and spatial degrees of freedom of light are intrinsically coupled. One of the unique example of SOI, spin-Hall effect of light (SHEL) has been an area of extensive research with potential applications in spin controlled photonic devices as well as emerging fields of spinoptics and spintronics. Here, we report our experimental study on SHEL due to forward scattering of focused linearly polarized Gaussian and Hermite-Gaussian () beams from a silver nanowire (AgNW). Spin dependent anti-symmetric intensity patterns are obtained when the polarization of the scattered light is analysed. The corresponding spin-Hall signal is obtained by computing the far-field longitudinal spin density (). Furthermore, by comparing the distributions, significant enhancement of the spin-Hall signal is found for beam compared to Gaussian beam. The investigation of the optical fields at the focal plane of the objective lens reveals the generation of longitudinally spinning fields as the primary reason for the effects. The experimental results are corroborated by 3-dimensional numerical simulations. The results lead to better understanding of SOI and can have direct implications on chip-scale spin assisted photonic devices.
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