Quantization of electromagnetic modes and angular momentum on plasmonic nanowires

Zhu Guodong¹, Guo Yangzhe¹, Dong Bin^{2, †}, Fang Yurui^{1, ‡}

The scheme of electric field distributions on plasmonic cylindrical nanowires excited by focused LCP (A^LCP) and RCP (A^RCP) light on left ends. The insets show the cross section at the wires at positions i and ii.