Coupling of spin and angular momentum of light in plasmonic vortex

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 10083-10094

  Cho, Seong Woo ^a   Park, Junghyun ^a   Lee, Seung Yeol ^a   Kim, Hwi ^b   Lee, Byoungho ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; TOPOLOGY;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF LIGHT; LINEAR SUMMATION; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PLASMONIC; SPIN ANGULAR MOMENTUM; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

VORTEX FLOW;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; ROTATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ROTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84861120156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010083     Document Type: Article

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