Abstract
We investigate the photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) in a symmetrical hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM) waveguide, which is constructed as an HMM/metal/HMM sandwich structure. We consider both type {\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral 1}} and type {\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral 2}} HMM in the study. We confirm that the structure of alternating sub-wavelength of plasma and dielectric or the structure of embedding plasma into a host dielectric matrix can display effective dielectric, effective metal, type {\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral 1}} and {\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral 2}} HMM under different wavelength ranges and different plasma fill fraction. This enable us to simultaneously realize type {\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral 1}} and type {\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral 2}} HMM. We show that the reflectivity ration $\vert r_{s}/r_{p} \vert$, directly related to transverse shifts generated by PSHE, greatly depends on the type and the thickness of HMM. Moreover, we find that the horizontal PSHE shifts are enhanced several times, especially in type {\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral 1}} structure; while the vertical PSHE shifts are significantly suppressed in both type {\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral 1}} and {\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral 2}} structure. By making the effect of metal type and thickness analysis, we further show that the impacts of these two factors on PSHE shifts are mainly subject to HMM thickness.