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Revealing the subfemtosecond dynamics of orbital angular momentum in nanoplasmonic vortices

Published:2017-03-17 Issue:6330 Volume:355 Page:1187-1191
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Spektor G.¹^ORCID,Kilbane D.²³,Mahro A. K.²^ORCID,Frank B.⁴,Ristok S.⁴^ORCID,Gal L.¹^ORCID,Kahl P.⁵^ORCID,Podbiel D.⁵^ORCID,Mathias S.²⁶,Giessen H.⁴^ORCID,Meyer zu Heringdorf F.-J.⁵^ORCID,Orenstein M.¹^ORCID,Aeschlimann M.²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel.

2. Department of Physics and State Research Center for Optics and Materials Sciences (OPTIMAS), University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin Schroedinger Strasse 46, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany.

3. School of Physics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.

4. 4th Physics Institute and Stuttgart Center of Photonics Engineering (SCoPE), University of Stuttgart, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.

5. Faculty of Physics and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg–Essen (CENIDE), University of Duisburg–Essen, Lotharstrasse 1-21, 47057 Duisburg, Germany.

6. I. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August–Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.

Abstract

Putting plasmons in a spin The ability of light to carry angular momentum provides an additional degree of freedom for applications such as optical tweezing and optical communication. Spektor et al. show that the optical angular momentum modes of light can be shrunk down to the nanometer scale through plasmonic transfer. They patterned spiral-like structures into an atomically smooth layer of gold, which allowed them to launch plasmons with controlled amounts of angular momentum. Science , this issue p. 1187

Funder

Baden-Württemberg Stiftung

European Research Council

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Irish Research Council

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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