Weak measurement of optical spin Hall effect in phase-discontinuity metasurface

Abstract

Recently it has been demonstrated that a rapid phase-change at a phase-discontinuity metasurface (PDM) leads to an additional momentum gradient enabling a direct observation of optical spin Hall (OSH) shift. We show that the helicity-dependent OSH shift depends on incidence and refraction angles at PDM, and construct a weak value measurement to control OSH shift by a variable phase retardance in the post-selection. © 2015 IEEE.