• DocumentCode
    732965
  • Title

    Creating surface plasmon orbital angular momentum in a gold metasurface

  • Author

    Ching-Fu Chen ; Chen-Ta Ku ; Ming-Yang Pan ; Pei-Kuen Wei ; Chen-Bin Huang

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Photonics Technol., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Nanocavities inscribed in a gold thin film is optimized and arranged to form a metasurface. We demonstrate both numerically and experimentally that surface plasmon vortex carrying orbital angular momentum can be generated under linearly-polarized optical excitation.
  • Keywords
    angular momentum; gold; light polarisation; metallic thin films; nanophotonics; nanostructured materials; optical metamaterials; optical vortices; surface plasmons; Au; gold metasurface; gold thin film; linearly-polarized optical excitation; nanocavities; orbital angular momentum; surface plasmon orbital angular momentum; surface plasmon vortex; Gold; Optical films; Optical polarization; Optical scattering; Optical vortices; Plasmons; Spirals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183402