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Slow-light enhanced absorption in liquid-infiltrated photonic crystals has recently been proposed as a route to compensate for the reduced optical path in typical lab-on-a-chip systems for bio-chemical sensing applications. A simple…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-06 Jesper Pedersen , Sanshui Xiao , Niels Asger Mortensen

We propose a highly efficient atomically-resolved mode of electron magnetic chiral dichroism. This method exploits the recently introduced orbital angular momentum spectrometer to analyze the inelastically scattered electrons allowing for…

Over the past two decades, metamaterials have led to an increasing number of biosensing and nanophotonic applications due to the possibility of a careful control of light propagating through subwavelength features. Chiral nanostructures…

Helical dichroism (HD) is a proposed method for the resolution of molecular chirality, employing the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light. Going beyond the conventional assumptions about HD, this work proposes a rigid theoretical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Mateja Hrast , Georgios M. Koutentakis , Mikhail Maslov , Mikhail Lemeshko

We review the physics and some applications of photonic structures designed for the realisation of strong $\textit{nonlinear chiroptical response}$. We pay much attention to the recent strategy of utilizing different types of…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-10 Kirill Koshelev , Pavel Tonkaev , Yuri Kivshar

Optical gyroscope based on the Sagnac effect have excellent potential in the application of high-sensitivity inertial rotation sensors. In this paper, we demonstrate that for an optical resonance gyroscope with normal dispersion, the…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-04 Xiaoyang Chang , Wenxiu Li , Hao Zhang , Yang Zhou , Anping Huang , Zhisong Xiao

Polarization-dependent photon spectroscopy (dichroism) of the second-harmonic generation (SHG) response is shown to reveal chiral and magnetic properties of a sample. Two dichroic signals are allowed with electric-dipole (E1) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-11 S. W. Lovesey , G. van der Laan

We demonstrate theoretically that non-chiral perovskite layers can exhibit circular dichroism (CD) in the absence of a magnetic field and without chiral activation by chiral molecules. The effect is shown to be due to splitting of helical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Peter C. Sercel , Zeev Valy Vardeny , Alexander L. Efros

We report on a joint experimental and theoretical study of photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) in methyloxirane. By detecting O 1s-photoelectrons in coincidence with fragment ions, we deduce the molecule's orientation and photoelectron…

Imaging the magnetic configuration of thin-films has been a long-standing area of research. Since a few years, the emergence of two-dimensional ferromagnetic materials calls for innovation in the field of magnetic imaging. As the magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-13 T. Guillet , A. Marty , C. Vergnaud , F. Bonell , M. Jamet

Majorana states in condensed matter devices may be of a localized nature, such as in hybrid semiconductor/superconductor nanowires, or chirally propagating along the edges such as in hybrid 2D quantum-anomalous-Hall/superconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-23 Javier Osca , Llorenç Serra

Cavity ring-down (CRD) spectroscopy represents a direct absorption technique of sample absorption measurement. Instead of measuring the amount of the absorbed light, this technique determines the rate at which light intensity decays inside…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 Muhammad Junaid Khan , Rida Batool Sheraliyat

Often only small amounts of sample are available for spectroscopic analytical determinations. This work investigates the enhancement of signal in columns packed with silica particles. We propose that silica particles cause the light to…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-20 Nathan A. Giauque , Callum E. Flowerday , Steven R. Goates

We introduce a charge coupled device (CCD) camera based detection scheme in dynamic light scattering that provides information on the single-scattered auto-correlation function even for fairly turbid samples. It is based on the single…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel Zakharov , Suresh Bhat , Peter Schurtenberger , Frank Scheffold

It is commonly accepted that the magnitude of a photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) is governed by the ability of an outgoing photoelectron wave packet to probe the chiral asymmetry of a molecule. To be able to accumulate this…

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a unique imaging technique for in vivo characterization of tissue microstructure and white matter pathways. However, its relatively long acquisition time implies greater motion artifacts when imaging, for example,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Yoonmi Hong , Wei-Tang Chang , Geng Chen , Ye Wu , Weili Lin , Dinggang Shen , Pew-Thian Yap

Photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM) has evolved into an indispensable tool for structural and magnetic characterization of surfaces at the nanometer scale. In strong contrast to synchrotron-radiation-based X-ray PEEM as a leading…

We prove that well-known speed of light restrictions on electromagnetic energy velocity can be extended to a new level of generality, encompassing even nonlocal chiral media in periodic geometries, while at the same time weakening the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Aaron Welters , Yehuda Avniel , Steven G. Johnson

To optimize the interaction between chiral matter and highly twisted light, quantities that can help characterize chiral electromagnetic fields near nanostructures are needed. Here, by analogy with Poynting's theorem, we formulate the…

The emergence of optical circular dichroism in chiral nanoscale and molecular systems provides not only a way for analyzing the sample chirality itself but also additional degrees of freedom in manipulating light. Such manipulation can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Marek Zálešák , Martin Ošmera , Martin Hrtoň , Andrea Konečná