We experimentally demonstrate the first plasmonic half-subtractor and demultiplexer circuits based on transmission-lines. Empowered by the unique polarization selectivity in the surface plasmon modal behaviors, both circuits are realized without cascading. The operations of the half-subtractor and demultiplexer can be performed using a single laser beam with three predefined linear polarizations. All of our experiments are performed using a 56 fs laser providing greater than 12.5 THz optical bandwidth.

https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2022-0267

We present the first ultrafast microscopy imaging study of a plasmonic spin skyrmion generated by the spin–orbit interaction of light. We reveal by experiment and theory the nanofemto plasmonic vortex fields and their topological skyrmion spin textures that can dress topologically trivial materials, drive magnetoelectric phenomena, and probe axion physics.

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0084482

By ultrafast time-resolved PEEM macroscopic imaging, we record a lattice of topological plasmonic spin textures resembling a lattice of magnetic meron quasiparticles in a nano-patterned metallic square coupling structure. The robustness of the spin angular momentum texture over the excitation pulse duration is demonstrated by extracting deep subwavelength resolution images of linear polarization singularity distributions that define the meron domain boundaries.

doi: 10.1063/5.0062133

Using time-resolved two-photon photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM), we experimentally recorded attosecond videos revealing evanescent vortex creations in a chiral plasmonic device even under linearly-polarized optical excitation. Moreover, the resulting vortex fields generate topological quasiparticles at the metal surface similar to magnetic skyrmions. We discover the stable creation of three plasmonic merons at the vortex core in the nano-femto scale.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-3030-1

http://web.ee.nthu.edu.tw/p/405-1175-197121,c5814.php?Lang=zh-tw

A polarization-actuated circulator for surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) is experimentally realized in the optical regime for the first time. We demonstrate circulations of SPPs can be actuated either by linearly polarized excitation or by spin angular momenta carried by circular polarizations. Experimentally, a wide optical operational bandwidth of ~ 100 nm is achieved.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c03008