Helicity dependent directional surface plasmon polariton excitation using a metasurface with interfacial phase discontinuity

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 2, Issue MARCH, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Lingling ^a,b   Chen, Xianzhong ^a   Bai, Benfeng ^b   Tan, Qiaofeng ^b   Jin, Guofan ^b   Zentgraf, Thomas ^c   Zhang, Shuang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Metasurface; Surface plasmon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878377166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2013.26     Document Type: Article

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