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Appl Opt. 2016 Jul 01;55(19):5025-32. doi: 10.1364/AO.55.005025.

Subwavelength micropolarizer in a gold film for visible light.

Applied optics

Victor V Kotlyar, Sergey S Stafeev, Maria V Kotlyar, Anton G Nalimov, Liam O' Faolain

PMID: 27409186 DOI: 10.1364/AO.55.005025

Abstract

We have designed and fabricated a 100  μm×100  μm four-sector binary subwavelength reflecting polarization microconverter in a gold film. Using finite-difference time-domain-aided numerical simulations and experiments, the micropolarizer was shown to convert an incident linearly polarized Gaussian beam of wavelength 532 nm into an azimuthally polarized beam. Conditions for generating on-axis regions of nonzero intensity when using propagating optical vortices with different initial polarization were deduced. By putting a spiral phase plate into an azimuthally polarized beam, the intensity pattern was shown to change from diffraction rings to a central peak.

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