Tunable spin splitting of Laguerre–Gaussian beams in graphene metamaterials

Wenguo Zhu; Mengjiang Jiang; Heyuan Guan; Jianhui Yu; Huihui Lu; Jun Zhang; Zhe Chen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000684

Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 6, 684(2017)

Tunable spin splitting of Laguerre–Gaussian beams in graphene metamaterials

Wenguo Zhu^1,2,3, Mengjiang Jiang^2,4, Heyuan Guan^1,5, Jianhui Yu², Huihui Lu², Jun Zhang⁴, and Zhe Chen⁴

¹Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

²Department of Optoelectronic Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

³e-mail: zhuwg88@163.com

⁴Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information and Sensing Technologies of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

⁵e-mail: ttguanheyuan@jnu.edu.cn

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Category: Metamaterials

Received: Jul. 25, 2017

Accepted: Sep. 19, 2017

Published Online: Dec. 7, 2017

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DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000684

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