Circular Polarization Conversion in Single Plasmonic Spherical Particles
NANO LETTERS(2022)
Abstract
Temporal and spectral behaviors of plasmons determine their ability to enhance the characteristics of metamaterials tailored to a wide range of applications, including electric-field enhancement, hot-electron injection, sensing, as well as polarization and angular momentum manipulation. We report a dark-field (DF) polarimetry experiment on single particles with incident circularly polarized light in which gold nanoparticles scatter with opposite handedness at visible wavelengths. Remarkably, for silvered nanoporous silica microparticles, the handedness conversion occurs at longer visible wavelengths, only after adsorption of molecules on the silver. Finite element analysis (FEA) allows matching the circular polarization (CP) conversion to dominant quadrupolar contributions, determined by the specimen size and complex susceptibility. We hypothesize that the damping accompanying the adsorption nanostructured silver facilitates the CP conversion. These results offer new perspectives in molecule for light polarization conversion and control of light spin angular momentum at submicroscopic scale.
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Plasmon, damping, dark-field microscopy, polarization, adsorption, nanoporous, particles, polarization conversion, molecule, sensing, photon spin angular momentum, spin-orbit interaction
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