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Far-field measurements of vortex beams interacting with nanoholes

We measure the far-field intensity of vortex beams going through nanoholes. The process is analyzed in terms of helicity and total angular momentum. It is seen that the total angular momentum is preserved in the process, and helicity is not. We compute the ratio between the two transmitted helicity...

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Autores principales: Zambrana-Puyalto, Xavier, Vidal, Xavier, Fernandez-Corbaton, Ivan, Molina-Terriza, Gabriel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4766500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26911547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep22185
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Sumario:We measure the far-field intensity of vortex beams going through nanoholes. The process is analyzed in terms of helicity and total angular momentum. It is seen that the total angular momentum is preserved in the process, and helicity is not. We compute the ratio between the two transmitted helicity components, γ(m,p). We observe that this ratio is highly dependent on the helicity (p) and the angular momentum (m) of the incident vortex beam in consideration. Due to the mirror symmetry of the nanoholes, we are able to relate the transmission properties of vortex beams with a certain helicity and angular momentum, with the ones with opposite helicity and angular momentum. Interestingly, vortex beams enhance the γ(m,p) ratio as compared to those obtained by Gaussian beams.