Tunable Multiple Surface Plasmonic Bending Beams into Single One by Changing Incident Light Wavelength

Abstract

Controllable surface plasmonic bending beams (SPBs) with propagating along bending curves have a wide range of applications in the fields of fiber sensors, optical trapping, and micro-nano manipulations. In terms of designing and optimizing controllable SPB generators, there is great significance in realizing conversion between multiple SPBs and single SPB without rebuilding metasurface structures. In this study, a SPB generator, composed of an X-shaped nanohole array, is proposed to realize conversion between multiple SPBs and a single one by changing the incident light wavelength. The Fabry–Pérot (F–P) resonance effect of SPPs in nanoholes and localized surface plasmonic (LSP) resonance of the nanohole are utilized to explain this conversion. It turns out that the relationship between the electric field intensities of SPBs and the polarization angle of incident light satisfies the sine distribution, which is consistent with dipole radiation theory. In addition, we also find that the electric field intensities of SPBs rely on the width, length, and angle of the X-shaped nanohole. These findings could help in designing and optimizing controllable and multi-functions SPBs converters.

Plasmonic Metalens to Generate an Airy Beam

“…Both methods involve the use of bulky optical elements preventing the compactness or portability of the optical systems. To overcome this size limitation, flat metasurfaces have been proposed to generate plasmonic airy beams in metallic layers [ 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 ], as well as airy beams in free space. For instance, in [ 30 ], an array of subwavelength slits was used to simultaneously generate an airy beam propagating in free-space and an Airy surface plasmon polariton (SPP).…”