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Minkyung Kim1, Dasol Lee2, Yeseul Kim1
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
The spin Hall effect of light (SHEL) is the microscopic spin-dependent splitting of light at an optical interface. Whereas the spin Hall shift under linearly polarized light is well-formulated, studies on the SHEL under elliptically or circularly polarized light have primarily relied on numerical computation. In this work, an explicit analytic formula for the spin Hall shift is derived under arbitrarily polarized incidence. Furthermore, from this explicit expression, we demonstrate that the spin Hall shift can be enhanced at any incident angle by using polarization degree of freedom and is independent of the Fresnel coefficients of an interface under circularly polarized light. The analytic formula will help us understand the SHEL under general polarization intuitively and realize unprecedented modulation of the SHEL.
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