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Light carries both spin and orbital angular momentum. These dynamical properties are determined by the polarization and spatial degrees of freedom of light. Nano-optics, photonics and plasmonics tend to explore subwavelength scales and additional degrees of freedom of structured — that is, spatially inhomogeneous — optical fields. In such fields, spin and orbital properties become strongly coupled with each other. In this Review we cover the fundamental origins and important applications of the main spin–orbit interaction phenomena in optics. These include: spin-Hall effects in inhomogeneous media and at optical interfaces, spin-dependent effects in nonparaxial (focused or scattered) fields, spin-controlled shaping of light using anisotropic structured interfaces (metasurfaces) and robust spin-directional coupling via evanescent near fields. We show that spin–orbit interactions are inherent in all basic optical processes, and that they play a crucial role in modern optics.
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This work was partially supported by the RIKEN iTHES Project, MURI Center for Dynamic Magneto-Optics (AFOSR grant no. FA9550-14-1-0040), JSPS-RFBR (contract no. 12-02-92100), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), the Australian Research Council, EPSRC (UK), and the ERC iPLASMM project (321268). A.V.Z. acknowledges support from the Royal Society and the Wolfson Foundation.
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Bliokh, K., Rodríguez-Fortuño, F., Nori, F. et al. Spin–orbit interactions of light. Nature Photon 9, 796–808 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.201
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