Generating optical orbital angular momentum at visible wavelengths using a plasmonic metasurface

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Karimi, Ebrahim ^a   Schulz, Sebastian A ^a   De Leon, Israel ^a   Qassim, Hammam ^a   Upham, Jeremy ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Light orbital angular momentum; Light spin angular momentum; Plasmonic metasurface

Indexed keywords

MOMENTUM; NANOANTENNAS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PLASMONS;

INTEGRATED PHOTONIC DEVICES; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; METASURFACE; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SPIN ANGULAR MOMENTUM; SUB-WAVELENGTH; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

EID: 84901438834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2014.48     Document Type: Article

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