• 文献标题:   Electric Control of Spin-Orbit Coupling in Graphene-Based Nanostructures with Broken Rotational Symmetry
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CIATTONI A, CONTI C, ZAYATS AV, MARINI A
  • 作者关键词:   nanophotonic, plasmonic, optical angular momentum
  • 出版物名称:   LASER PHOTONICS REVIEWS
  • ISSN:   1863-8880 EI 1863-8899
  • 通讯作者地址:   CNR
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1002/lpor.202000214 EA JUL 2020
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Spin and orbital angular momenta of light are important degrees of freedom in nanophotonics which control light propagation, optical forces, and information encoding. Here, it is shown that graphene-supported plasmonic nanostructures with broken rotational symmetry provide a surprising spin to orbital angular momentum conversion, which can be continuously controlled by changing the electrochemical potential of graphene. Upon resonant illumination by a circularly polarized plane wave, a polygonal array of indium-tin-oxide nanoparticles on a graphene sheet generates the scattered field carrying electrically-tunable orbital angular momentum. This unique photonic spin-orbit interaction occurs due to the strong coupling between graphene plasmon polaritons and localized surface plasmons of the nanoparticles and leads to the controlled directional excitation of graphene plasmons. The tuneable spin-orbit conversion paves the way for high-rate information encoding in optical communications, electric steering functionalities in optical tweezers, and nanorouting of higher-dimensional entangled photon states.