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Nanoscale Optical Addressing of Valley Pseudospins through Transverse Optical Spin.


ABSTRACT: Valley pseudospin has emerged as a good quantum number to encode information, analogous to spin in spintronics. Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDCs) recently attracted enormous attention for their easy access to the valley pseudospin through valley-dependent optical transitions. Different ways have been reported to read out the valley pseudospin state. For practical applications, on-chip access to and manipulation of valley pseudospins is paramount, not only to read out but especially to initiate the valley pseudospin state. Here, we experimentally demonstrate the selective on-chip, optical near-field initiation of valley pseudospins at room temperature. We exploit a nanowire optical waveguide, such that the local transverse optical spin of its guided modes selectively excites a specific valley pseudospin. Furthermore, spin-momentum locking of the transverse optical spin enables us to flip valley pseudospins with the opposite propagation direction. Thus, we open up ways to realize integrated hybrid opto-valleytronic devices.

SUBMITTER: Gong SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7291348 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Nanoscale Optical Addressing of Valley Pseudospins through Transverse Optical Spin.

Gong Su-Hyun SH   Komen Irina I   Alpeggiani Filippo F   Kuipers L L  

Nano letters 20200601 6


Valley pseudospin has emerged as a good quantum number to encode information, analogous to spin in spintronics. Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDCs) recently attracted enormous attention for their easy access to the valley pseudospin through valley-dependent optical transitions. Different ways have been reported to read out the valley pseudospin state. For practical applications, on-chip access to and manipulation of valley pseudospins is paramount, not only to read out bu  ...[more]

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