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Artificial nanostructures enable fine control of electromagnetic fields at the nanoscale, a possibility that has recently been extended to the interaction between polarised light and chiral matter. The theoretical description of such…

We propose a nanospaser made of an achiral plasmonic-metal nanodisk and a two-dimensional chiral gain medium -- a monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDC). When one valley of the TMDC is selectively pumped (e.g., by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Rupesh Ghimire , Jhih-Sheng Wu , Vadym Apalkov , Mark I. Stockman

Here, we reported, for the first time, a chiral metasurface with multifunctional capabilities tailored for the near-infrared (NIR) wavelength range, garnering tremendous interest in applications such as optical communication and chiral…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-12 Md. Ehsanul Karim , Ahmed Zubair

The spin-selective reflection to introduce chirality which can have a lot of applications in real life such as spectroscopy, optical setups, media industry etc. In this paper, a reflection based metasurface proposed to introduce the giant…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-23 Asif Ali , Syeda Rida Tahir , Muhammad Adnan

Fine control of the chiral light-matter interaction at the nanoscale, by exploiting designed metamaterial architecture, represents a cutting-edge craft in the field of biosensing, quantum and classic nanophotonics. Recently, artificially…

The plasmonic chirality has drawn a lot of attention because of the tunable circular dichroism (CD) and the enhancement for the signal of chiral molecules. Different mechanisms have been proposed for explaining the plasmonic CD, however, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Li Hu , Xiaorui Tian , Yingzhou Huang , Xinqiang Wang , Yurui Fang

Atoms are usually thought of as achiral objects. However, one can construct superpositions of atomic states that are chiral [1]. Here we show how to excite such superpositions with tailored light fields both in the weak-field and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Nicola Mayer , Serguei Patchkovskii , Felipe Morales , Misha Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

Circular dichroism (CD), arising from spin-selective light-matter interactions controlled by chirality, is critical for advanced applications such as chiral imaging and ultrasensitive biosensing. However, CD of chiral natural materials is…

Chiral crystals show promise for spintronic technologies on account of their high spin selectivity, which has led to significant recent interest in quantitative characterization and first-principles prediction of their spin-optoelectronics…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-05 Christian Multunas , Andrew Grieder , Junqing Xu , Yuan Ping , Ravishankar Sundararaman

It is shown that chiral plasmons, characterized by a longitudinal magnetic moment accompanying the longitudinal charge plasmon, lead to electromagnetic near-fields that are also chiral. For twisted bilayer graphene, we estimate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 T. Stauber , T. Low , G. Gómez-Santos

The circular dichroism (CD) of photoelectrons generated by near-infrared (NIR) laser pulses using multiphoton ionization of excited He$^+$ ions in the 3p(m=+1) state. The ions were prepared by circularly polarized extreme ultraviolet (XUV)…

We propose a near-infrared super resolution imaging system without a lens or a mirror but with an array of metallic nanoshell particle chain. The imaging array can plasmonically transfer the near-field components of dipole sources in the…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-17 Weijie Kong , Xiaoping Zhang , Penfei Cao , Lin Cheng , Li Gong , Xining Zhao , Lili Yang

We report observation of electron helical dichroism on a material with chiral structure. In analogy with circular dichroism, a common technique for molecular structural fingerprinting, we use a nanofabricated forked diffraction grating to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-08 Tyler R. Harvey , Jordan S. Pierce , Jordan J. Chess , Benjamin J. McMorran

Two-dimensional lattices of chiral nanoholes in a plasmonic film with lattice constants being slightly larger than light wavelength are proposed for effective control of polarization and spatial properties of light beams. Effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 V. V. Klimov , I. V. Zabkov , A. A. Pavlov , R. -C. Shiu , H. -C. Chan , G. Y. Guo

Novel types of barrel-shaped chiral skyrmions can exist as isolated topological defects or as bound states in magnetic nanolayers with intrinsic and surface/interface induced chirality. The equilibrium parameters of chiral modulations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 A. O. Leonov

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…

Periodic arrays of air nanoholes in thin metal films that support surface plasmon resonances can provide an alternative approach for boosting the light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. Indeed, nanohole arrays have garnered great…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-24 Bryson Krause , Minh Pham , Hoang Luong , Tho Nguyen , Thang Hoang

We report on strong field ionization of S- and R-propylene oxide in circularly polarized two-color laser fields. We find that the relative helicity of the two single color laser fields affects the photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD).…

Doubly enhanced third harmonic generation (THG) is realized by the electric dipole resonance (EDR) in silicon nanodisks placed onto a metallic film at near-infrared. By introducing the metal substrate, the perfect electric conductor (PEC)…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-30 Jin Yao , Na Liu , Guoxiong Cai , Qing Huo Liu

We discuss the possibility of enhancing the chiroptical response from molecules uniformly distributed around nanostructures that sustain localized plasmon resonances. We demonstrate that the average optical chirality in the near field of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Marco Finazzi , Paolo Biagioni , Michele Celebrano , Lamberto Duó