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Locally Enhanced and Tunable Optical Chirality in Helical Metamaterials

Optics 2018-08-10 v1

Abstract

We report on a numerical study of optical chirality. Intertwined gold helices illuminated with plane waves concentrate right and left circularly polarized electromagnetic field energy to sub-wavelength regions. These spots of enhanced chirality can be smoothly shifted in position and magnitude by varying illumination parameters, allowing for the control of light-matter interactions on a nanometer scale.

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@article{arxiv.1611.07748,
  title  = {Locally Enhanced and Tunable Optical Chirality in Helical Metamaterials},
  author = {Philipp Gutsche and Raquel Mäusle and Sven Burger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.07748},
  year   = {2018}
}

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8 pages, 5 figures