Near-field collimation of light carrying orbital angular momentum with bull's-eye-assisted plasmonic coaxial waveguides

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Pu, Mingbo ^a   Ma, Xiaoliang ^a   Zhao, Zeyu ^a   Li, Xiong ^a   Wang, Yanqin ^a   Gao, Hui ^a   Hu, Chenggang ^a   Gao, Ping ^a   Wang, Changtao ^a   Luo, Xiangang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

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EID: 84945252569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12108     Document Type: Article

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