Optical Spin Hall Effects in Plasmonic Chains

Nano Letters 11 , 2038 (2011) [pdf]

Opt. Express 19, 23475 (2011) [pdf]

                     Plasmonics: New twist on nanoscale motors

                                          Erez Hasman nature nanotechnology | VOL 5 | AUGUST 2010 | 563  [pdf]

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136402 (2010)

                  Plasmonic Aharonov-Bohm effect: Optical spin as the magnetic flux parameter

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125433 (2010)[pdf]

Observation of Optical Spin Symmetry Breaking in Nanoapertures,  

Nano Letters, 9 (8), pp 3016–3019 (2009) [pdf]

Nature Materials: research highlights [pdf]

Whirling Plasmons: Angular Momentum
Selection Rule,  OPN 20 (12), p 26 (2009) [pdf]

   Bandgap structure of thermally exited surface phonon polaritons,

Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 071911 (2010)[pdf]

Spin-orbit interaction of light [pdf]

Cover Story  The development of a new branch of physics — spin optics — has taken a step forwards thanks to a direct observation of the influence of the spin Hall effect of light on photon trajectories. Konstantin Bliokh and co-workers report two important observations: first, a spin-dependent deflection of photons; and second, precession of the Stokes vector along a coiled ray trajectory. The measurements, which match theoretical predictions, verify the role that the topological monopole and Berry phase play in the evolution of light. The experiments were made by passing a circularly polarized beam of red light from a HeNe laser into a small glass cylinder at a grazing angle using a prism. Once inside the cylinder the beam travels in a helical trajectory along the glass–air interface and is collected and analysed at the far end using polarization optics and a CCD camera. [pdf]

The effect of spin on the trajectories of polarized light beams has now been experimentally observed, with results that agree with the predictions of Berry phase theory.

Geometrodynamics of spinning light, Nature Photonics 2, 748 (2008 ) [pdf]

Technion researchers first to observe Magnus (spin Hall) effect in light

 Extraordinary Coherent Thermal Emission From SiC Due to Coupled Resonant Cavities, J. Heat Transfer  130, 112401 (2008 ) [pdf]

Observation of the Spin-Based Plasmonic Effect in Nanoscale Structures,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 043903 (2008) [pdf]

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Highly coherent thermal emission obtained by plasmonic bandgap structures, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 081913 (2008)

Singular polarimetry: Evolution of polarization singularities in electromagnetic waves propagating in a weakly anisotropic medium, Opt. Express 16, 695 (2008)

Excitation of a single hollow waveguide mode using inhomogeneous anisotropic subwavelength structures,

Opt. Express 15, 13404-13414 (2007)

Enhanced coherency of thermal emission: Beyond the limitation imposed by delocalized surface waves,

Phys. Rev B 76, 045427 (2007)

Polychromatic vectorial vortex formed by geometric phase elements, Opt. Lett. 32, 847-849 (2007)

Metallic subwavelength structures for a broadband infrared absorption control, Opt. Lett. 32, 994-996  (2007)

Vectorial vortex mode transformation for a hollow waveguide using Pancharatnam-Berry phase optical elements, Opt. Lett. 31,3252-3254 (2006) 

Optical properties of polarization-dependent geometric phase elements with partially polarized light, Opt. Commun. 266,  365–375 (2006) 

Manipulation of polarization-dependent multi-vortices with quasi-periodic subwavelength structures, Opt. Lett. 31, 1594-1596  (2006) 

Manipulation of the Pancharatnam phase in vectorial vortices, Opt. Exp. 14, 4208-4220 (2006)

Spatial-polarization state scrambling for image encryption obtained with subwavelength gratings, OPN, Optics & Photonics News, 16, No 12,  41 (2005)

Space-variant polarization manipulation of a thermal emission by a SiO2 subwavelength grating supporting surface phonon-polaritons,  Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 191102 (2005)

Rotating vectorial vortices produced by space-variant subwavelength gratings, Optics Letters 30, 2933, (2005)

Thermal image encryption obtained with a SiO₂ space-variant subwavelength grating supporting surface phonon-polaritons,  Optics Letters 30, 3195 (2005)

Space-variant polarization manipulation for far-field polarimetry by use of subwavelength dielectric gratings, Optics Letters  30, 2245  (2005)

Space-variant polarization manipulation
E. Hasman, G. Biener, A. Niv and V. Kleiner, 
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Geometrical phase image encryption obtained with  space-variant subwavelength grating, Optics Letters 30, 1096 (2005)

Spiral phase elements obtained by use of discrete space-variant subwavelength gratings, Opt. Commun. 251, 306 (2005)

Propagation-invariant vectorial Bessel beams obtained by use of quantized Pancharatnam–Berry phase optical elements,  Optics Letters  29, 238  (2004)

Spatial Fourier-transform polarimetry by use of space-variant subwavelength gratings (Optics in 2003), Optics & Photonics News 14, No. 12, p. 34 (2003)