Weak measurements of light chirality with a plasmonic slit

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gorodetski, Y ^a   Bliokh, K Y ^b,c   Stein, B ^a   Genet, C ^a   Shitrit, N ^d   Kleiner, V ^d   Hasman, E ^d   Ebbesen, T W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c A USIKOV INSTITUTE OF RADIO PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Ukraine)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICITIES; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; INCIDENT LIGHT; INPUT POLARIZATION; METAL SURFACES; MOMENTUM SPACES; NEAR-FIELD; PLASMON-POLARITON MODES; PLASMONIC; SIMPLE SYSTEM; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; WEAK MEASUREMENTS; WEAK VALUES;

CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMERS; MEASUREMENTS; POLARIZATION; SPIN HALL EFFECT;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84863647746     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.013901     Document Type: Article

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