Spin-orbit coupling of light for polarization dependent nano-optics

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• Francisco Rodriguez-Fortuño (King's College London)
• Wednesday 17 May 2017, 14:30-15:30
• Physics West Seminar LT (117).

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Spin-orbit coupling of light describes how spin angular momentum of light (associated with circular/elliptical polarization of the electric field) is coupled to orbital angular momentum of light (associated with the energy flow and propagation direction). I will focus on a specific example of “spin orbit coupling” related to electromagnetic evanescent waves which allows controlling the propagation direction of guided light waves simply by tuning the polarization of a point source. This effect is very fundamental, broadband, and robust to imperfections. I will describe the various experimental demonstrations and latest applications which we carried out to test this effect and its reciprocal version.

This talk is part of the Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars series.

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