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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 23, Issue 1, 013601 (2025)

Nano-thick SiO₂ channel for subwavelength plasmonic orbital angular momentum mode transmission

Zhishen Zhang¹, Xiaobo Heng², Shuai Gao¹, Li Zhang¹, Fei Lin¹, Weicheng Chen^1、*, and Jiulin Gan^3、**

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¹Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Technology, School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan 528225, China

²GBA Branch of Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510700, China

³State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices and Institute of Optical Communication Materials, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China

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Zhishen Zhang, Xiaobo Heng, Shuai Gao, Li Zhang, Fei Lin, Weicheng Chen, Jiulin Gan, "Nano-thick SiO₂ channel for subwavelength plasmonic orbital angular momentum mode transmission," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 013601 (2025) Copy Citation Text

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Zhishen Zhang, Xiaobo Heng, Shuai Gao, Li Zhang, Fei Lin, Weicheng Chen, Jiulin Gan, "Nano-thick SiO₂ channel for subwavelength plasmonic orbital angular momentum mode transmission," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 013601 (2025)

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