Photonics Research, 2017, 5 (6): 06000684, Published Online: Dec. 7, 2017
Tunable spin splitting of Laguerre–Gaussian beams in graphene metamaterials Download: 737次
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Fig. 1. (a) Schematic of the OAM-dependent spin splitting. A vertically polarized LG beam is coupled into a graphene metamaterial slab through a CaF 2 prism. The two opposite spin components of the transmitted beam will separate along the x t axis. (b) The intensity distributions of the RCP and LCP components of the incident and transmitted beams along the x i and x t axes, respectively. (c) The graphene metamaterial composed of alternating graphene sheets and Al 2 O 3 layers.
Fig. 2. (a) Changes of the normalized OAM-dependent spin splitting Δ / Δ up with the incident angle θ i and thickness of metamaterial d when w 0 = 180 μm . (b) The dependences of Δ / Δ up on θ i for w 0 = 90 μm (red color), 225 μm (blue color), and 450 μm (green color). In our calculations, ℓ = 1 , E F = 0.335 eV , d = 7.5 μm , and λ = 4.509 μm .
Fig. 3. (a) Changes of the spin splitting Δ (red dots) and its upper bounds Δ up (blue dots) with the incident OAM ℓ for θ i = 33 ° and d = 7.5 μm . (b) The normalized spin splitting Δ / Δ up changing with the incident angle θ i for OAM ℓ = ± 10 (red color), ± 5 (blue color), ± 1 (green color), and 0 (black color).
Fig. 4. (a) Dependences of the normalized spin splitting Δ / Δ up on the Fermi energy E F for ℓ = − 3 and d = 7.2 μm (red color), 8.3 μm (blue color), and 9.0 μm (green color). (b) The normalized intensities of the RCP (solid lines) and LCP (dotted lines) components of the transmitted beams along the x t axis for d = 8.3 μm and E F = 0.275 eV (red color), 0.299 eV (blue color), 0.318 eV (green color), 0.356 eV (pink color), and 0.4 eV (black color).
Fig. 5. Spin splitting Δ changing with the wavelength λ when E F = 0.3 eV (red color), 0.335 eV (blue color), 0.38 eV (green color), and 0.45 eV (black color). The inset shows the real part of in-plane permittivity of the graphene metamaterial Re [ ϵ eff , // ] changing with λ for different values of E F .
Wenguo Zhu, Mengjiang Jiang, Heyuan Guan, Jianhui Yu, Huihui Lu, Jun Zhang, Zhe Chen. Tunable spin splitting of Laguerre–Gaussian beams in graphene metamaterials[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(6): 06000684.