Optical spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion in ultra-thin metasurfaces with arbitrary topological charges

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METASURFACES; SPIN-TO-ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM CONVERSIONS; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; ULTRA-THIN;

EID: 84907100108     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4895620     Document Type: Article

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