On-demand steering of hyperbolic chiral polaritons
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| author | Dai, Andrea S. Tay, Fuyang Xu, Ding Lee, Inki Bussell, Noah Balatsky, Daria Ruta, Francesco L. Lian, Emma Nuckolls, Colin Roy, Xavier Analytis, James G. Millis, Andrew J. Basov, D. N. Delor, Milan |
| author_facet | Dai, Andrea S. Tay, Fuyang Xu, Ding Lee, Inki Bussell, Noah Balatsky, Daria Ruta, Francesco L. Lian, Emma Nuckolls, Colin Roy, Xavier Analytis, James G. Millis, Andrew J. Basov, D. N. Delor, Milan |
| contents | Control of light polarization and propagation in sub-wavelength architectures is foundational to nanophotonic technologies. A frontier direction is to leverage strong optical spin-orbit interactions to realize polarization-selective light steering, known as the photonic spin Hall effect. In this context, hyperbolic plasmon polaritons (HPPs) are of particular interest as they offer large optical spin-orbit coupling from strong confinement and dielectric anisotropy, as well as ray-like propagation. Despite theoretical predictions, however, the hyperbolic spin Hall effect in natural materials has remained elusive. Here, we demonstrate the hyperbolic spin Hall effect in the visible and near-infrared range in the natural hyperbolic van der Waals metal MoOCl2. Enabling this discovery is a novel far-field pump-probe microscope that facilitates the launching and imaging of HPPs with exceptional sensitivity through interference with a high-momentum reference field. This approach preserves excellent control over light polarization, overcoming a key barrier to polarization-selective interrogation of hyperbolic materials. We show that both hyperbolic and surface plasmons in MoOCl2 display chiral fields, and that their propagation direction can be completely switched upon light helicity reversal. Our results demonstrate on-demand steering of chiral plasmons, firmly establishing natural hyperbolic materials as ideal components for reconfigurable nanophotonics and chiral light-matter coupling. |
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| spellingShingle | On-demand steering of hyperbolic chiral polaritons Dai, Andrea S. Tay, Fuyang Xu, Ding Lee, Inki Bussell, Noah Balatsky, Daria Ruta, Francesco L. Lian, Emma Nuckolls, Colin Roy, Xavier Analytis, James G. Millis, Andrew J. Basov, D. N. Delor, Milan Materials Science Optics Control of light polarization and propagation in sub-wavelength architectures is foundational to nanophotonic technologies. A frontier direction is to leverage strong optical spin-orbit interactions to realize polarization-selective light steering, known as the photonic spin Hall effect. In this context, hyperbolic plasmon polaritons (HPPs) are of particular interest as they offer large optical spin-orbit coupling from strong confinement and dielectric anisotropy, as well as ray-like propagation. Despite theoretical predictions, however, the hyperbolic spin Hall effect in natural materials has remained elusive. Here, we demonstrate the hyperbolic spin Hall effect in the visible and near-infrared range in the natural hyperbolic van der Waals metal MoOCl2. Enabling this discovery is a novel far-field pump-probe microscope that facilitates the launching and imaging of HPPs with exceptional sensitivity through interference with a high-momentum reference field. This approach preserves excellent control over light polarization, overcoming a key barrier to polarization-selective interrogation of hyperbolic materials. We show that both hyperbolic and surface plasmons in MoOCl2 display chiral fields, and that their propagation direction can be completely switched upon light helicity reversal. Our results demonstrate on-demand steering of chiral plasmons, firmly establishing natural hyperbolic materials as ideal components for reconfigurable nanophotonics and chiral light-matter coupling. |
| title | On-demand steering of hyperbolic chiral polaritons |
| topic | Materials Science Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12686 |