title: Spin Hall effect of light in metallic reflection.
abstract: We report the first measurement of the spin Hall effect of light (SHEL) on an air-metal interface. The SHEL is a polarization-dependent out-of-plane shift on the reflected beam. For the case of metallic reflection with a linearly polarized incident light, both the spatial and angular variants of the shift are observed and are maximum for -45°/45° polarization, but zero for pure s and p polarization. For an incoming beam with circular polarization states however, only the spatial out-of-plane shift is present.
authors.affiliation: Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. hermosa@physics.leidenuniv.nl
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hermosa
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Nugrowati
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aiello
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Woerdman