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We report extremely strong optical activity and circular dichroism exhibited by subwavelength arrays of four-start-screw holes fabricated with one-pass focused ion beam milling of freely suspended silver films. Having the fourth order…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. V. Gorkunov , A. A. Ezhov , V. V. Artemov , O. Y. Rogov , S. G. Yudin

Maximum structural chirality refers to the highest selectivity for circularly polarized light (CPL) in nanostructures, often manifested as maximum circular dichroism (CD), optical rotation (OR), and spin-orbit coupling (SOC). However, the…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-29 WenKui Zhao , ShengYi Wang , HanZhuo Kuang , Hao Luo , Qiu Wang , Bo-Wen Jia

Super-resolution structured illumination microscopy (SR-SIM) is a widely used technique for enhancing the resolution of fluorescence imaging beyond the diffraction limit. Most existing SR-SIM methods rely on Moir\'e effect-based physical…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-27 Junzheng Peng , Jiahao Xian , Xi Lin , Manhong Yao , Shiping Li , Jingang Zhong

DNA and proteins are chiral: their three-dimensional structure cannot be superimposed with its mirror image. Circular dichroism spectroscopy is widely used to characterize chiral compounds, but data interpretation is difficult in the case…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-09 Steven Daly , Frederic Rosu , Valerie Gabelica

Though structured illumination (SI) microscopy is a popular imaging technique conventionally associated with fluorescent super-resolution, recent works have suggested its applicability towards sub-diffraction coherent imaging with…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-13 Shwetadwip Chowdhury , Will J. Eldridge , Adam Wax , Joseph A. Izatt

Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) overcomes the optical diffraction limit by folding high-frequency components into the baseband of the optical system, where they can be extracted and then repositioned to their original location in…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-18 Doron Shterman , Guy Bartal

We present a computational imaging technique for imaging thin films at grazing-incidence (GI) angles by incorporating structured illumination into existing GI X-ray scattering setups. This method involves scanning a micro-coded aperture…

The enhancement of the inherently weak optical activity of solvated molecules by superchiral fields, crucial for detecting their chirality, is a research frontier of photonics and the basis of novel chiroptical detection schemes. Here, we…

Chirality is a fundamental concept in physics that underpins various phenomena in nonlinear optics, quantum physics, and topological photonics. Although the spin of a photon naturally brings chirality, orbital angular momentum can also…

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…

Optically active achiral metasurfaces offer a promising way to detect chiral molecules based on chiroptic methods. The combination of plasmonic enhanced circular dichroism and reversible optical activity would boost the sensitivity and…

Recent efforts in the field of surface-enhanced spectroscopies have focused on the paradigm of superchirality, entailing the engineering of the local electromagnetic fields to boost the enantiospecific interaction between light and chiral…

Mirror symmetry is among the most fundamental concepts of physics and its spontaneous breaking at the molecular level allows chiral molecules to exist in two enantiomers that are mirror images of each other. The majority of chiro-optical…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-29 Alessandro Ciattoni

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

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) provides images of fluorescent objects at an enhanced resolution greater than that of conventional epifluorescence wide-field microscopy. Initially demonstrated in 1999 to enhance the lateral…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-09 James D. Manton

We present a novel chiral sensing platform that combines a one-dimensional photonic crystal design with a birefringent surface defect. The platform sustains simultaneous transverse electric and transverse magnetic surface modes, which are…

Chirality, a pervasive phenomenon in nature, is widely studied across diverse fields including the origins of life, chemical catalysis, drug discovery, and physical optoelectronics. The investigations of natural chiral materials have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Xiu Zhang , Lu Zhang , Junzhi Zhu , Tingxiao Qin , Haiyun Huang , Baixu Xiang , Haiyun Liu , Qihua Xiong

The structured illumination is adopted widely in the super-resolution microscopy imaging. Here, we studied the ghost imaging scheme with sinusoidal structured speckle illumination, whose spatial resolution can surpass the…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-12 Liming Li

Resonant chiral dielectric metasurfaces can support circular dichroism exceeding that of natural materials, but their small dissipative losses simultaneously limit the maximization of circular dichroism, which inherently relies on…

Chiral metal halide perovskites have emerged as promising optoelectronic materials for emission and detection of circular polarized visible light. Despite chirality being realized by adding chiral organic cations or ligands, the chiroptical…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-26 Sofia Apergi , Geert Brocks , Shuxia Tao