Chiral surface plasmon polaritons on metallic nanowires

S. Zhang
Institute of Physics CAS
Beijing
China
Published in 2011

Chiral SPPs can be generated by linearly polarized light incident at the end of a nanowire, exciting a coherent superposition of three specific nanowire waveguide modes.

Chirality is preserved in the emitted photons, creating a subwavelength ¼ wave plate.

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