Transfer of orbital angular momentum through sub-wavelength waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2857-2862

  Wang, Yanqin ^a   Ma, Xiaoliang ^a   Pu, Mingbo ^a   Li, Xiong ^a   Huang, Cheng ^a   Pan, Wenbo ^a   Zhao, Bo ^a   Cui, Jianhua ^a   Luo, Xiangang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); OPTICAL FIBERS; ORBITAL TRANSFER; PLASMONICS;

DEGREE OF FREEDOM; NONLINEAR EFFECT; ON-CHIP SYSTEMS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LOSS; SUB-WAVELENGTH WAVEGUIDES; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84922772894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.002857     Document Type: Article

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