• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 9, B7 (2022)
Yu Li1、2, Xinhao Fan1, Xuyue Guo1, Yi Zhang3, Sheng Liu1, Bingyan Wei1, Dandan Wen1, Peng Li1、4、*, and Jianlin Zhao1、5、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1MOE Key Laboratory of Material Physics and Chemistry under Extraordinary Conditions, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China
  • 2Xi’an Ming De Institute of Technology, Xi’an 710124, China
  • 3Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University, Espoo 02150, Finland
  • 4e-mail: pengli@nwpu.edu.cn
  • 5e-mail: jlzhao@nwpu.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.463041 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Yu Li, Xinhao Fan, Xuyue Guo, Yi Zhang, Sheng Liu, Bingyan Wei, Dandan Wen, Peng Li, Jianlin Zhao. Metasurface for oscillatory spin splitting along the optical path[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(9): B7 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Spin splitting of light originates from the interplay between the polarization and spatial degrees of freedom as a fundamental constituent of the emerging spin photonics, providing a prominent pathway for manipulating photon spin and developing exceptional photonic devices. However, previously relevant devices were mainly designed for routing monotonous spin splitting of light. Here, we realize an oscillatory spin splitting of light via metasurface with two channel Pancharatnam–Berry phases. For the incidence of a linearly polarized light, the concomitant phases arising from opposite spin states transition within pathways of the metasurface induce lateral spin splitting of light with alternately changed transport direction during beam guiding. We demonstrate the invariance of this phenomenon with an analogous gauge transformation. This work provides a new insight on steering the photon spin and is expected to explore a novel guiding mechanism of relativistic spinning particles, as well as applications of optical trapping and chirality sorting.
    ϕC1ϕC2+eCA·dl,

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    eCA·dl=ΔϕPB±.

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    ER,L(r,z)=jEgj(r,z)J0(krjr)ei(kzjz+ϕPBj±),j=1,2,

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    IR,L(z)=I0+2|Eg1(z)||Eg2(z)|cos(Δkzz+ΔϕPB±),

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    Yu Li, Xinhao Fan, Xuyue Guo, Yi Zhang, Sheng Liu, Bingyan Wei, Dandan Wen, Peng Li, Jianlin Zhao. Metasurface for oscillatory spin splitting along the optical path[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(9): B7
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