Broadband spin-controlled focusing via logarithmic-spiral nanoslits of varying width
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
This work presents analytical, numerical and experimental demonstrations of light diffracted through a logarithmic spiral (LS) nanoslit, which forms a type of switchable and focus-tunable structure. Owing to a strong dependence on the incident photon spin, the proposed LS-nanoslit converges incoming light of opposite handedness (to that of the LS-nanoslit) into a confined subwavelength spot, while it shapes light with similar chirality into a donut-like intensity profile. Benefitting from the varying width of the LS-nanoslit, different incident wavelengths interfere constructively at different positions, i.e., the focal length shifts from 7.5 μm (at λ = 632.8 nm) to 10 μm (at λ = 488 nm), which opens up new opportunities for tuning and spatially separating broadband light at the micrometer scale.
Date Issued
2015-09-19
Date Acceptance
2015-08-10
Citation
Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2015, 9 (6), pp.674-681
ISSN
1863-8899
Publisher
Wiley-VCH Verlag
Start Page
674
End Page
681
Journal / Book Title
Laser & Photonics Reviews
Volume
9
Issue
6
Copyright Statement
© 2015 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Number
EP/L024926/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Optics
Physics, Applied
Physics, Condensed Matter
Physics
logarithmic-spiral nanoslit
confined spot
diffraction
broadband spin-controlled focusing
CIRCULAR-POLARIZATION ANALYZER
CHIRAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS
PLASMONIC LENS
CONVERSION
METAMATERIAL
Optoelectronics & Photonics
0205 Optical Physics
0206 Quantum Physics
0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences
Publication Status
Published