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Chiral Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Metallic Nanowires

Zhang, Shunping ; Wei, Hong ; Bao, Kui ; Håkanson, Ulf LU ; Halas, Naomi J. ; Nordlander, Peter and Xu, Hongxing LU (2011) In Physical Review Letters 107(9).
Abstract
Chiral surface plasmon polaritons (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. Images of chiral SPPs on individual nanowires obtained from quantum dot fluorescence excited by the SPP evanescent field reveal the chirality predicted in our theoretical model. The handedness and spatial extent of the helical periods of the chiral SPPs depend on the input polarization angle and nanowire diameter as well as the dielectric environment. Chirality is preserved in the free-space output wave, making a metallic nanowire a broad bandwidth subwavelength source of circular polarized photons.
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  author       = {{Zhang, Shunping and Wei, Hong and Bao, Kui and Håkanson, Ulf and Halas, Naomi J. and Nordlander, Peter and Xu, Hongxing}},
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  series       = {{Physical Review Letters}},
  title        = {{Chiral Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Metallic Nanowires}},
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  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.096801}},
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