2016/02/21 by M. H. Alizadeh, Mohammad Hosein Alizadeh, Björn M. Reinhard +1
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Materials science #Nanowire #Nanowire Synthesis and Applications #Optics #Optoelectronics #Physics #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Semiconductor #Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices #Transverse plane #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/oe.24.008471
published as Optics Express Vol. 24, Issue 8, pp. 8471-8479 (2016)
arxiv created 2016/02/21 · openalex publication_date 2016/04/11 · arxiv updated 2016/04/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The transverse spin angular momentum of light has recently received tremendous attention as it adds a new degree of freedom for controlling light-matter interactions. In this work we demonstrate the generation of transverse spin angular momentum by the weakly-guided mode of semiconductor nanowires. The evanescent field of these modes in combination with the transversality condition rigorously accounts for the occurrence of transverse spin angular momentum. The intriguing and nontrivial spin properties of optical modes in semiconductor nanowires are of high interest for a broad range of new applications including chiral optical trapping, quantum information processing, and nanophotonic circuitry.