Spin-orbit-locked hyperbolic polariton vortices carrying reconfigurable topological charges

Mingsong Wang; Guangwei Hu; Saroj Chand; Michele Cotrufo; Yohannes Abate; Kenji Watanabe; Takashi Taniguchi; Gabriele Grosso; Cheng-Wei Qiu; Andrea Alù

doi:10.1186/s43593-022-00018-y

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Spin-orbit-locked hyperbolic polariton vortices carrying reconfigurable topological charges

eLight Vol. 2, Issue 1, (2022)

RESEARCH ARTICLE | Updated：2024-09-28

- Spin-orbit-locked hyperbolic polariton vortices carrying reconfigurable topological charges
- Affiliations：
  
  Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, New York City, NY 10031, USA
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 116083, Singapore
  Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
  Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
  International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
  Physics Program,Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
- Author bio：
  
  *Andrea Alùaalu@gc.cuny.edu
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- DOI：10.1186/s43593-022-00018-y
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- Published：2022-12，
  
  Published Online：18 July 2022，
  
  Received：07 April 2022，
  
  Revised：04 May 2022，
  
  Accepted：10 May 2022
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Mingsong Wang, Guangwei Hu, Saroj Chand, et al. Spin-orbit-locked hyperbolic polariton vortices carrying reconfigurable topological charges. [J]. eLight, 2022,2(1).
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Mingsong Wang, Guangwei Hu, Saroj Chand, et al. Spin-orbit-locked hyperbolic polariton vortices carrying reconfigurable topological charges. [J]. eLight, 2022,2(1). DOI： 10.1186/s43593-022-00018-y.

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Abstract

The topological features of optical vortices have been opening opportunities for free-space and on‑chip photonic technologies

e.g.

for multiplexed optical communications and robust information transport. In a parallel but disjoint effort

polar anisotropic van der Waals nanomaterials supporting hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HP

s) have been leveraged to drastically boost light‑matter interactions. So far HP

studies have been mainly focusing on the control of their amplitude and scale features. Here we repor

t the generation and observation of mid‑infrared hyperbolic polariton vortices (HP

Vs) associated with reconfigurable topological charges. Spiral‑shaped gold disks coated with a flake of hexagonal boron nitride are exploited to tailor spin–orbit interactions and realise deeply subwavelength HP

Vs.The complex interplay between excitation spin

spiral geometry and HP

dispersion enables robust reconfigurability of the associated topological charges. Our results reveal unique opportunities to extend the application of HP

s into topological photonics

quantum information processing by integrating these phenomena with single‑photon emitters

robust on‑chip optical applications

sensing and nanoparticle manipulation.

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Keywords

Hyperbolic polariton vortexLight-matter interactionsSpin‑orbit interactionTopological chargeReconfigurability

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