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Complex Polarization Response in Plasmonic Nanospirals

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Archimedean nanospirals exhibit many far-field resonances that result from the lack of symmetry and strong intra-spiral plasmonic interactions. Here, we present a computational study, with corroborating experimental results, on the plasmonic response of the 4π Archimedean spiral as a function of incident polarization, for spirals in which the largest linear dimension is less than 550 nm. We discuss the modulation of the near-field structure for linearly and circularly polarized light in typical nanospiral configurations. Computational studies of the near-field distributions excited by circularly polarized light illustrate the effects of chirality on plasmonic mechanisms, while rotation of linearly polarized light provides a detailed view of the effects of broken symmetry on nanospiral fields in any given direction in the plane of the spiral. The rotational geometry exhibits a preference for circular polarization that increases near-field enhancement compared to excitation with linearly polarized light and exchanges near-field configurations and resonant modes. By analyzing the effects of polarization and wavelength on the near-field configurations, we also show how the nanospiral could be deployed in applications such as tunable near-field enhancement of nonlinear optical signals from chiral molecules.

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This research was supported by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (DE-FG02-01ER45916).

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    Jed I. Ziegler & Richard F. Haglund Jr.

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Ziegler, J.I., Haglund, R.F. Complex Polarization Response in Plasmonic Nanospirals. Plasmonics 8, 571–579 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-012-9436-3

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