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ArticleLight, science & applications2025

Spin-orbit coupling in van der Waals materials for optical vortex generation.

Jaegang Jo, Sujeong Byun, Munseong Bae, Jianwei Wang, Haejun Chung, Sejeong Kim

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Jaegang Jo *Department of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Sujeong Byun *Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Munseong BaeDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Jianwei WangState Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1313-9266
Haejun ChungDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. haejun@hanyang.ac.kr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8959-237X
Sejeong KimDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. sejeong.kim@unimelb.edu.au.

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National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) NRF-2022K1A3A1A91093776
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Abstract

An optical vortex beam has attracted significant attention across diverse applications, including optical manipulation, phase-contrast microscopy, optical communication, and quantum photonics. To utilize vortex generators for integrated photonics, researchers have developed ultra-compact vortex generators using fork gratings, metasurfaces, and integrated microcombs. However, those devices depend on costly, time-consuming nanofabrication and are constrained by the low signal-to-noise ratio due to the fabrication error. As an alternative maneuver, spin-orbit coupling has emerged as a method to obtain the vortex beam by converting spin angular momentum (SAM) without nanostructures. Here, we demonstrate the creation of an optical vortex beam using van der Waals (vdW) materials. The significantly high birefringence of vdW materials allows the generation of optical vortex beams, even with materials of sub-wavelength thickness. In this work, we utilize an 8 µm-thick hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) crystal for the creation of optical vortices carrying topological charges of ±2. We also present the generation of an optical vortex beam in a 320 nm-thick MoS

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