title: Experimental confirmation of miniature spiral plasmonic lens as a circular polarization analyzer.
abstract: A spiral plasmonic lens can focus circular polarization of a given handedness while simultaneously defocus the circular polarization of the opposite chirality, which may be used as a miniature circular polarization analyzer. In this letter, we experimentally investigated the plasmonic focusing properties of the spiral lens using a collection mode near-field scanning optical microscope. A single Archimedes' spiral slot with a single turn was etched through gold thin film as a spiral plasmonic lens. The plasmonic field at the focus of a spiral lens strongly depends on the spin of the incident photon. Circular polarization extinction ratio better than 50 is obtainable with a device size as small as only 4 times of surface plasmon wavelength.
authors.affiliation: Electro-Optics Graduate Program, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, Ohio 45469, USA.
authors.forename: Weibin
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Don C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Abeysinghe
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: Qiwen
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhan