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Compound plasmonic vortex generation based on spiral nanoslits

Optics 2020-12-08 v1

Abstract

In view of wide applications of structured light fields and plasmonic vortices, we propose the concept of compound plasmonic vortex and design several structured plasmonic vortex generators. This kind of structured plasmonic vortex generators consists of multiple spiral nanoslits and they can generate two or more concentric plasmonic vortices. Different from Laguerre-Gaussian beam, the topological charge of the plasmonic vortex in different region is different. Theoretical analysis lays the basis for the design of radially structured plasmonic vortex generators and numerical simulations for several examples confirm the effectiveness of the design principle. The discussions about the interference of vortex fields definite the generation condition for the structured vortex. This work provides a design methodology for generating new vortices using spiral nanoslits and the advanced radially structured plasmonic vortices is helpful for broadening the applications of vortex fields.

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@article{arxiv.2012.03271,
  title  = {Compound plasmonic vortex generation based on spiral nanoslits},
  author = {Changda Zhou and Zhen Mou and Rui Bao and Zhong Li and Shuyun Teng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.03271},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures

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