Optical Stern-Gerlach Deflection And Young’s Experiment In Reciprocal Space

Young’s experiment for photons in the reciprocal space. Spin patterns corresponding to the persistent spin Helix. Credit: Mateusz Krol, Faculty of Physics UW

Scientists have, for the first time, demonstrated Young’s experiment for photons in the reciprocal space. Spin patterns corresponding to the persistent spin helix and the Stern-Gerlach experiment are realized in an optically anisotropic liquid crystal microcavity.

By applying electric voltage across the microcavity, the liquid crystal molecules inside could be rotated in such a way that the light passing through the cavity was forced to change its internal state into right- and left-handed circular polarized components.

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