Polarization control of non-diffractive helical optical beams through subwavelength metallic apertures

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lombard, E ^a   Drezet, A ^a   Genet, C ^a   Ebbesen, T W ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR RINGS; HELICITIES; METAL FILM; METALLIC APERTURES; NON-DIFFRACTIVE; OPTICAL BEAMS; POLARIZATION CONTROL; POLARIZATION STATE; SIMPLE METHOD; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 77649146705     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/2/023027     Document Type: Article

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