Spin-Hall effect of light and its enhancement in multilevel atomic system Academic Article

abstract

• Using the sensitivity of atomic transitions on the polarizations of pump fields in multi-Zeeman-sublevel atomic systems, we show the polarization-direction-dependent anisotropic susceptibility of atoms that yields the strong coupling between the spin and the transverse momentum of light, i.e., spinorbit interaction (SOI). Moreover, we also show that the spin-Hall effect of light can be obtained due to SOI. It can be controlled via the orientation of the anisotropy and frequency of light, and substantially enhanced up to several micrometers, which could be easily observed in experiment.

authors

• Agarwal, Girish

published proceedings

• OPTICS LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

• Wu, J., Zhang, J., Zhu, S., & Agarwal, G. S.

citation count

• 6

complete list of authors

• Wu, Jinze||Zhang, Junxiang||Zhu, Shiyao||Agarwal, Girish S

publication date

• January 2020

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Optics Letters  Journal

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5108 Quantum Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/OL.45.000149

start page

• 149

end page

• 152

volume

• 45

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.45.000149