Chiral optical Local Density of States in spiral plasmonic cavity
arXiv:1611.10137 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.94.053850
Abstract
We introduce a new paradigm: the chiral electromagnetic local density of states (LDOS) in a spiral plasmonic nanostructure. In both classical and quantum regimes, we reveal using scanning near-field optical microscopy (NSOM) in combination with spin analysis that a spiral cavity possesses spin-dependent local optical modes. We expect this work to lead to promising directions for future quantum plasmonic device development, highlighting the potentials of chirality in quantum information processing.
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