Optical birefringence effects of pure spin currents in semiconductors

Ren-Bao Liu; Jing Wang; Jing Wang; Bang-Fen Zhu

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2008),
paper QFJ4

Optical birefringence effects of pure spin currents in semiconductors

Ren-Bao Liu, Jing Wang, and Bang-Fen Zhu

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference 2008

San Jose, California United States
4–9 May 2008
ISBN: 978-1-55752-859-9

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Coherent Control of Spin in Semiconductors (QFJ)

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R. Liu, J. Wang, and B. Zhu, "Optical birefringence effects of pure spin currents in semiconductors," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2008), paper QFJ4.

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Abstract

We predict that a pure spin current in a semiconductor, even without net mag-netization, presents the Voigt and Faraday birefringence, which may be exploited for a direct, non-demolition measurement of the pure spin current.

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