Near-Complete Photon Spin Selectivity in a Metasurface of Anisotropic Plasmonic Antennas

作者:Ogier Robin*; Fang Yurui; Kall Mikael; Svedendahl Mikael
来源:Physical Review X, 2015, 5(4): 041019.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevX.5.041019

摘要

Simple chiroptically active metamaterials are difficult to realize in practice but could pave the way for a range of important applications, such as sensitive optical biosensors, asymmetric catalysis, and novel polarization manipulation devices. We show that a metasurface based on a random arrangement of anisotropic but aligned gold nanoparticles can exhibit an almost perfect selectivity towards incident photon spin for evanescent excitation with visible to near-infrared light. The experimentally attained reflection contrast between left- and right-handed circularly polarized light peaks at similar to 90%, in excellent agreement with analytical theory. These results are important for the development of future photonic and plasmonic polarization-based technologies.

  • 出版日期2015-11-4