Metasurface-Controlled Photonic Rashba Effect for Upconversion Photoluminescence.

Tripathi, Aditya; Zalogina, Anastasiia; Liao, Jiayan; Wurdack, Matthias; Estrecho, Eliezer; Zhou, Jiajia; Jin, Dayong; Kruk, Sergey S et al. · Nano Lett · 2023

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We demonstrate the effect of spin-momentum locking of upconversion photoluminescence emitted from rare-earth doped nanocrystals coupled to a phase-gradient dielectric metasurface. We observe different directionalities for left and right circular polarized light and associate this experimental observation with <i>the photonic Rashba effect</i> realized for upconverted photoluminescence that is manifested in the spin-dependent splitting of emitted light in the momentum space.