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We introduce and theoretically analyze the concept of manipulating optical chirality via strong coupling of the optical modes of chiral nanostructures with excitonic transitions in molecular layers or semiconductors. With chirality being…

Chirality introduces intriguing topological, electronic, and spin-optronic properties to molecules and solids. In this work, we provide a quantitative metric for the degree of chirality in solids, independent of the type of system and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-18 Andrew Grieder , Shihao Tu , Yuan Ping

In this text we describe the role of optical chirality in the context of plasmonics. We clearly distinguish between 2D an 3D optical chirality and connect the problem with reciprocity and time symmetry. We compare our analysis with recent…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-10 Aurélien Drezet , Cyriaque Genet

Several dynamical properties such as energy, momentum, angular momentum, and optical helicity have been recently reexamined in dispersive and lossless media. Here, we address a parallel derivation for the optical chirality, extending it so…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-01 J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano , Alejandro Martínez

Chiral quantum optics is a growing field of research where light-matter interactions become asymmetrically dependent on momentum and spin, offering novel control over photonic and electronic degrees of freedom. Recently, the platforms for…

Optical parametric oscillation (OPO) is distinguished by its wavelength access, that is, the ability to flexibly generate coherent light at wavelengths that are dramatically different from the pump laser, and in principle bounded solely by…

Circularly-polarized (CP) vibrations are the nuclear-motion analog of CP light, emerging in molecules with non-Abelian point-group symmetry that support orthogonal and degenerate vibrational normal modes. Here, we explore the optical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Chientzu Lin , Connor K. Terry Weatherly , Roel Tempelaar

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light appears when the phase of an electromagnetic wavefront winds around its direction of propagation, also known as optical vorticity. Contrary to the binary-valued photon spin, the integer-valued optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Zuzanna Werner , Andrzej Frączak , Valtýr Kári Daníelsson , Jacek Szczytko , Barbara Piętka , Helgi Sigurðsson

Dark-field illumination is shown to make planar chiral nanoparticle arrangements exhibit circular dichroism in extinction analogous to true chiral scatterers. Circular dichrosim is experimentally observed at the maximum scattering of single…

Strong-field methods in solids enable new strategies for ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy and provide all-optical insights into the electronic properties of condensed matter in reciprocal and real space. Additionally, solid-state media…

Recently, Tang and Cohen (Science 332, 333, 2011) have demonstrated a scheme to enhance the chiral response of molecules, which relies on the use of circularly polarized light in a standing wave configuration. Here we show a new type of…

Optical chirality has been recently suggested to complement the physically relevant conserved quantities of the well-known Maxwell's equations. This time-even pseudoscalar is expected to provide further insight in polarization phenomena of…

Chiral microlasers with orbital angular momenta are promising platforms for developing integrated high-dimensional photonic devices. However, it's still challenging to arbitrarily manipulate the degree of chirality and quantum numbers of…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-26 Zhen Qiao , Song Zhu , Yu-Cheng Chen

Circularly polarized (CP) electroluminescence from organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) has aroused considerable attention for their potential in future display and photonic technologies. The development of CP-OLEDs relies largely on…

The generation of chiral laser emission offers promising opportunities for modern photonic applications and the study of chiral light-mater interactions. Despite the great process made in recent years, the direct generation of chiral lasers…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-19 Hamim Rivy , Yu-Cheng Chen

Light interacts differently with left and right handed three dimensional chiral objects, like helices, and this leads to the phenomenon known as optical activity. Here, by applying a polarization tomography, we show experimentally, for the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Drezet , C. Genet , J. -Y. Laluet , T. W. Ebbesen

We propose an approach to sensitively probe the chirality of molecules by measuring their coherent optical absorption spectra. It is shown that quantum dynamics of the cyclic three-level chiral molecules driven by appropriately-designed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 W. Z. Jia , L. F. Wei

Optical nonlinearities - how light-matter interactions are influenced by previous interactions with photons, are key resources in the contemporary photonics toolbox, relevant to quantum gate operations and all-optical switches. Optical…

Chirality is a fundamental property of great importance in physics, chemistry, and biology, and has recently been found to generate unexpected spin polarization for electrons passing through organic molecules, known as chirality-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Qun Yang , Yongkang Li , Claudia Felser , Binghai Yan

Plasmonic fields are usually considered non-chiral because of the transverse magnetic polarization of surface plasmon modes. We however show here that an optical lattice created from the intersection of two coherent surface plasmons…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Antoine Canaguier-Durand , Cyriaque Genet