Selective excitation of a three-dimensionally oriented single plasmonic dipole

Fajun Xiao; Guanglin Wang; Xuetao Gan; Wuyun Shang; Shiyin Cao; Weiren Zhu; Ting Mei; Malin Premaratne; Jianlin Zhao

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.000693

Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 6, 693(2019)

Selective excitation of a three-dimensionally oriented single plasmonic dipole

Fajun Xiao^1,2, Guanglin Wang¹, Xuetao Gan^1,3, Wuyun Shang¹, Shiyin Cao¹, Weiren Zhu⁴, Ting Mei¹, Malin Premaratne⁵, and Jianlin Zhao^1,6

Author Affiliations

¹MOE Key Laboratory of Material Physics and Chemistry under Extraordinary Conditions, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China

²e-mail: fjxiao@nwpu.edu.cn

³e-mail: xuetaogan@nwpu.edu.cn

⁴Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

⁵Advanced Computing and Simulation Laboratory (AXL), Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia

⁶e-mail: jlzhao@nwpu.edu.cn

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Category: Surface Optics and Plasmonics

Received: Mar. 20, 2019

Accepted: Apr. 8, 2019

Published Online: Jun. 4, 2019

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DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000693

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