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SUBMITTER: Levy M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5216357 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Scientific reports 20170106
We present a formulation of electromagnetic spin-orbit coupling in magneto-optic media, and propose an alternative source of spin-orbit coupling to non-paraxial optics vortices. Our treatment puts forth a formulation of nonreciprocal transverse-spin angular-momentum-density shifts for evanescent waves in magneto-optic waveguide media. It shows that magnetization-induced electromagnetic spin-orbit coupling is possible, and that it leads to unequal spin to orbital angular momentum conversion in ma ...[more]