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Surface plasmon polaritons interference excited by a tightly focused and radially polarized vortex beam

MA WEN-JUAN1, ZOU WEN-DONG1,* , HUANG PIN-BO1, WANG WEI-HONG1

Affiliation

  1. Key Laboratory of Nondestructive Test (Ministry of Education), Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, 330063, Jiangxi, China

Abstract

A tightly focused and radially polarized vortex beam can not only provide a wider angular spectrum and a stronger longitudinal electric field in the process of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) interference, but also avoid the influence of the center angular spectrum on the main peak of the SPPs interference field. In this paper, we focus on a case of a SPPs standing field induced by a tightly focused and normally incident radially polarized vortex beam and compare it with that resulting from radially polarized Gaussian beam and linear polarized vortex beam. At the present time, the photonic nanodevices based on the SPPs are considered to be the basic of all-optical integrated loop with nanometer scale. So the study of the properties of the SPPs standing field is very important and some factors on the generation of interference pattern is considered and analyzed..

Keywords

Tightly focusing, Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), Vortex beam, Radially polarized.

Citation

MA WEN-JUAN, ZOU WEN-DONG, HUANG PIN-BO, WANG WEI-HONG, Surface plasmon polaritons interference excited by a tightly focused and radially polarized vortex beam, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 7, 5-6, May-June 2013, pp.443-447 (2013).

Submitted at: Nov. 1, 2012

Accepted at: June 12, 2013