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Vol. 8, Issue 6, 1042 (2020)

Disclosing transverse spin angular momentum of surface plasmon polaritons through independent spatiotemporal imaging of its in-plane and out-of-plane electric field components

Yulu Qin¹, Boyu Ji¹, Xiaowei Song^1,2, and Jingquan Lin^1,*

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¹Department of Physics, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China

²e-mail: songxiaowei@cust.edu.cn

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Yulu Qin, Boyu Ji, Xiaowei Song, Jingquan Lin, "Disclosing transverse spin angular momentum of surface plasmon polaritons through independent spatiotemporal imaging of its in-plane and out-of-plane electric field components," Photonics Res. 8, 1042 (2020) Copy Citation Text

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[1] Yulu Qin, Boyu Ji, Xiaowei Song, Jingquan Lin, "Ultrafast spatiotemporal control of directional launching of surface plasmon polaritons in a plasmonic nano coupler," Photonics Res. 9, 514 (2021)

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Yulu Qin, Boyu Ji, Xiaowei Song, Jingquan Lin, "Disclosing transverse spin angular momentum of surface plasmon polaritons through independent spatiotemporal imaging of its in-plane and out-of-plane electric field components," Photonics Res. 8, 1042 (2020)

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