Survival of the orbital angular momentum of light through an extraordinary optical transmission process in the paraxial approximation
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Spectral and Angle-Resolved Magneto-Optical Characterization of Photonic Nanostructures
Published on: November 21, 2019
Abstract:
We report on the extraordinary optical transmission (EOT) of an orbital angular momentum (OAM) state of light in the paraxial approximation. The OAM state transmits through a subwavelength metal hole array with a square structure, and then is analyzed by using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. In the experiment, the transmitted light well conserves the OAM information while the transmission efficiency of the OAM mode is much greater than 1 (i.e., EOT works). Further study shows that the OAM mode has no significant influence on the transmission spectrum of the EOT paraxial process under our experimental configuration. Our work can be useful for future plasmon-based OAM devices.
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