Plasmonic polarization generator in well-routed beaming

Lin Li; Tao Li; Xia-Mei Tang; Shu-Ming Wang; Qian-Jin Wang; Shi-Ning Zhu

doi:10.1038/lsa.2015.103

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Plasmonic polarization generator in well-routed beaming

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- Plasmonic polarization generator in well-routed beaming
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 4, Issue 4, (2015)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
  2.Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
- Author bio：
  
  T Li, Email: taoli@nju.edu.cn, URL: http://dsl.nju.edu.cn/litao/
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2015.103
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- Published：2015-12，
  
  Published Online：12 May 2015，
  
  Received：01 January 2015，
  
  Revised：27 April 2015，
  
  Accepted：06 May 2015
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Li, L. et al. Plasmonic polarization generator in well-routed beaming. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e330 (2015).
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Li, L. et al. Plasmonic polarization generator in well-routed beaming. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e330 (2015). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2015.103.

摘要

Abstract

As one of the recent advances of optics and photonics

plasmonics has enabled unprecedented optical designs. Having a vectorial configuration of surface plasmon field

metallic nanostructures offer efficient solutions in polarization control with a very limited sample thickness. Many compact polarization devices have been realized using such metallic nanostructures. However

in most of these devices

the functions were usually simple and limited to a few polarization states. Here

we demonstrated a plasmonic polarization generator that can reconfigure an input polarization to all types of polarization states simultaneously. The plasmonic polarization generator is based on the interference of the in-plane (longitudinal) field of the surface plasmons that gives rise to versatile near-field polarization states on a metal surface

which have seldom been considered in previous studies. With a well-designed nanohole array

the in-plane field of SPPs with proper polarization states and phases can be selectively scattered out to the desired light beams. A manifestation of eight focusing beams with well-routed polarizations was experimentally demonstrated. Our design offers a new route to achieve the full control of optical polarizations and possibly advance the development in photonic information processing.

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near-field interferencephase modulationplasmonicspolarization generator

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