Measurement of Giant Spin Splitting of Reflected Gaussian Beams

作者:Zhen, Zhishen; Zhuo, Linqing; Zhu, Wenguo*; Chen, Liheng; Yu, Jianhui; Guan, Heyuan; Lu, Huihui; Dong, Jianli; Qiu, Wentao; Chen, Zhe
来源:IEEE Photonics Journal, 2018, 10(2): 4500307.
DOI:10.1109/JPHOT.2018.2791950

摘要

We investigate theoretically and experimentally the beam shifts of a Gaussian beam reflected by an air-glass interface at Brewster incidence. For a linearly polarized incident beam, the reflected beam will undergo a spatial spin splitting within the plane of incidence. This spin splitting is up to 83 mu m when the incident beam waist is 90 mu m. Additionally, the reflected beam will be deflected along the direction perpendicular to the incident plane, i.e., undergo an angular shift. The maximum angular shift has been theoretically predicted and experimentally confirmed. Both the spatial spin splitting and angular shift can be controlled by the incident polarization state. These controllable giant beam shifts have potential applications in the design of spin-photonic devices and the optical sensing.