Off-center emitter (here created by an electron beam) on a nanorod creates light with a spin (IMAGE)

Tokyo University of Science

Off-center emitter (here created by an electron beam) on a nanorod creates light with a spin

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(Left) Illustration of the spin of the light field around a gold nanorod coupled to an ultra-thin optical fiber. (Inset) Experimental measurements showing the magnitude of the optical spin (D) generated at the nanoscale.

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Professor Mark Sadgrove from Tokyo University of Science, Japan Image link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c05644

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