title: Coherent control of light-matter interactions in polarization standing waves.
abstract: We experimentally demonstrate that standing waves formed by two coherent counter-propagating light waves can take a variety of forms, offering new approaches to the interrogation and control of polarization-sensitive light-matter interactions in ultrathin (subwavelength thickness) media. In contrast to familiar energy standing waves, polarization standing waves have constant electric and magnetic energy densities and a periodically varying polarization state along the wave axis. counterintuitively, anisotropic ultrathin (meta)materials can be made sensitive or insensitive to such polarization variations by adjusting their azimuthal angle.
authors: Optoelectronics Research Centre &Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors: Xu
authors: X
authors: Fang
authors: Optoelectronics Research Centre &Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors: Kevin F
authors: KF
authors: MacDonald
authors: Optoelectronics Research Centre &Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors: Eric
authors: E
authors: Plum
authors: Optoelectronics Research Centre &Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.|Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences &The Photonics Institute, Nanyang Technological University, 637371, Singapore.
authors: Nikolay I
authors: NI
authors: Zheludev