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One of the most widely used chiroptical spectroscopic methods for studying chiral molecules is Raman optical activity; however, the chiral Raman optical activity signal is extremely weak. Here, we theoretically examine enhanced chiral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-03 Tuguldur Kh. Begzjav , Zhedong Zhang , Marlan O. Scully , Girish S. Agarwal

Chiral discrimination with high harmonic generation (cHHG method) has been introduced in the recent work by R. Cireasa et al ( Nat. Phys. 11, 654 - 658, 2015). In its original implementation, the cHHG method works by detecting high harmonic…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-28 Olga Smirnova , Yann Mairesse , Serguei Patchkovskii

Efficient chirality sorting is now highly demanded to separate assembled mesoscopic chiral structures which are of very special physical properties rather than their achiral counterparts or those at the single-particle level. However, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-03 Jie Su , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

Optical analog computing enables powerful functionalities, including spatial differentiation, image processing, and ultrafast linear operations. Yet, most existing approaches rely on resonant or periodic structures, whose performance is…

We describe the signatures of a circularly polarized gravitational-wave background on the timing residuals obtained with pulsar-timing arrays. Most generally, the circular polarization will depend on the gravitational-wave direction, and we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Enis Belgacem , Marc Kamionkowski

The strong chiral light-matter interaction is crucial for various important fields such as chiral optics, quantum optics, and biomedical optics, driving a quest for the extreme intrinsic chirality assisted by ultrahigh quality ($Q$-) factor…

We introduce a microscopy technique that facilitates the prediction of spatial features of chirality of nanoscale samples by exploiting photo-induced optical force exerted on an achiral tip in the vicinity of the test specimen. The…

In certain applications or wavelength regimes, essential optical components for imaging systems are either unavailable or challenging to fabricate. To address this, we propose an optics-free classical ghost imaging (GI) scheme utilizing…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-09 Yuhan Guo , Xiangyu Yin , Chunguang Meng , Liming Li , Huiqiang Liu

We theoretically investigate light matter interactions for chiral molecules in the presence of non-chiral nanoantennas. Isotropic nanostructures supporting optical-frequency electric or magnetic dipoles are sufficient to locally enhance the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Aitzol Garcia-Etxarri , Jennifer A. Dionne

Synthetic aperture laser radar has higher resolution, so requires higher modulated bandwidth. Because the data volume of chirp or pulse coding schemes is too large, it brings much pressure to data acquisition and data processing. So, we can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Fuping Fang , Heng Hu , Weiming Xu , Rong Shu

We demonstrate that an effect phenomenologically analogous to circular dichroism can arise even for dielectric and isotropic chiral spherical particles. By analyzing the polarimetry of light scattered from a chiral, lossless microsphere…

Circularly polarized light (CPL) is currently receiving much attention as a key ingredient for next-generation information technologies, such as quantum communication and encryption. CPL photon generation for such applications is commonly…

Chiral light-matter interactions have been investigated for two centuries, leading to the discovery of many chiroptical processes used for discrimination of enantiomers. Whereas most chiroptical effects result from a response of bound…

Usually, off-axis digital holographic microscopy requires a coherent light source in order to record a full-field hologram. Nevertheless, a LASER-based illumination leads to a non-negligible coherent noise, decreasing then the imaging…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-02 Stephane Perrin , Jonas Kuhn , Christian Depeursinge

In this paper, we introduce an iterative speckle filtering method for polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) images based on the bilateral filter. To locally adapt to the spatial structure of images, this filter relies on pixel similarities in both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-04 Olivier D'Hondt , Stéphane Guillaso , Olaf Hellwich

We investigate theoretically the polarization properties of the quantum dot's optical emission from chiral photonic crystal structures made of achiral materials in the absence of external magnetic field at room temperature. The mirror…

Measuring natural circular dichroism in the X-ray regime to extract stereochemical information from chiral molecules in solution remains a challenge. This is primarily due to technical limitations of the existing synchrotron sources. It…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Jeremy R. Rouxel , Riccardo Mincigrucci , Danny Fainozzi , Claudio Masciovecchio

Chiral properties have seen increasing use in recent years, leading to the emerging fields of chiral quantum optics, plasmonics, and phononics. While these fields have achieved manipulation of the chirality of light and lattice vibrations,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-08 Carl P. Romao , Dominik M. Juraschek

Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and fundamental in science, from particle physics to metamaterials.The most established technique of chiral discrimination - photoabsorption circular dichroism - relies on the magnetic properties of a…

Circular dichroism spectroscopy is an essential technique for understanding molecular structure and magnetic materials, but spatial resolution is limited by the wavelength of light, and sensitivity sufficient for single-molecule…