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The theory to calculate circular dichroism (CD) of chiral molecules in a finite cluster with arbitrarily disposed objects has been developed by means of T-matrix method. The interactions between chiral molecules and nanostructures have been…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-01 Tong Wu , Jun Ren , Rongyao Wang , Xiangdong Zhang

Recently, we proposed a metasurface design for chiral sensing that (i) results in enhanced chiroptical signals by more than two orders of magnitude for ultrathin, subwavelength, chiral samples over a uniform and accessible area, (ii) allows…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-18 Sotiris Droulias , Lykourgos Bougas

Chiral optical terahertz (THz) devices have significant technological implications for telecommunications, spectroscopy, and sensing. Engineering tunable, broadband, and cost-effective THz chiral materials has long been recognized as a…

We report on a phenomenon of plasmonic dichroism observed in magnetic materials with the transverse magnetization under the excitation of the surface plasmon polariton waves. The effect originates from the interplay of the two…

Tunable flat optics are essential for advancing compact photonic devices. Here we show a numerical study of a reflective magneto-optical metasurface with a dynamically tunable focal length. The structure comprises bismuth iron garnet…

Molecular chirality is a key design property for many technologies including bioresponsive imaging, circularly polarized light detection and emission, molecular motors and switches. Imaging and manipulating the primary steps of transient…

Chirality as internal degree of freedom of a mesoscopic domain wall inside a quasi-one-dimensional fixture can be controlled by spin-polarized current for ferro- as well as anti-ferro-magnetic domain walls. We show that the current density…

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We investigated the properties of dichroic cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) being in external static magnetic field directed along helix axis. We have shown that in the case of the wavelength dependence of magneto-optic activity…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-17 A. H. Gevorgyan

Recently, there is growing interest in integrating alkali vapors with nanoscale photonic structures, such as nano-waveguides, resonators and nanoantennas. Nanoscale confinement of electromagnetic fields may introduce a longitudinal electric…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-10 Roy Zektzer , Eliran Talker , Yefim Barash , Noa Mazurski , Uriel Levy

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…

Accurate characterization of polarization dependent light matter interactions in nanostructured systems is paramount for the development of chiral metasurfaces. It is also often challenging, because multiple anisotropic mechanisms, such as…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-27 Jeeban Kumar Nayak , Ebru Buhara , Olivier J. F. Martin

Synthetic chiral light enables ultrafast and highly efficient imaging of molecular chirality. Unlike standard circularly polarized light, the handedness of synthetic chiral light does not rely on the spatial structure of the light field: it…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-06 Laura Rego , David Ayuso

Chirality plays a major role in nature, from particle physics to DNA, and its control is much sought-after due to the scientific and technological opportunities it unlocks. For magnetic materials, chiral interactions between spins promote…

Efficient manipulation of the emission direction of a chiral nanoscale light source is significant for information transmission and on-chip information processing. Here, we propose a scheme to control the directionality of nanoscale chiral…

We examine the far-field optical response, under-plane wave excitation in the presence of a static magnetic field, of core-shell nanoparticles involving a gyroelectric component, either as the inner or the outer layer, through analytic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-13 P. Elli Stamatopoulou , Vassilios Yannopapas , N. Asger Mortensen , Christos Tserkezis

We investigate the emergence of self-hybridized thermal magnetoplasmons in doped graphene nanodisks at finite temperatures when subjected to an external magnetic field. Using a semianalytical approach, which fully describes the eigenmodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Mikkel Have Eriksen , Juan R. Deop-Ruano , Joel D. Cox , Alejandro Manjavacas

Enhancing magneto-optical effects is crucial for size reduction of key photonic devices based on non-reciprocal propagation of light and to enable active nanophotonics. We disclose a so far unexplored approach that exploits dark plasmons to…

Chiral bound states in the continuum (BICs) are confined photonic modes with infinite quality factors and chiral response, offering significant potential for chiral optics. Although a novel type of spin-orbital-locking chiral BIC was…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-03 Maohua Gong , Qiutong Zhen , Yujie Tang , Peng Hu , Qing-An Tu , Yan Meng , Peiheng Zhou , Zhen Gao

Chiral lattice modes are hybrid states arising from chiral plasmonic particles assembled in ordered arrays with opportune periodicity. These resonances exhibit dependence on excitation handedness, and their observation in plasmonic lattices…

Recently, there is a great interest in studying ultrasensitive detection and characterization of biomolecules using plasmonic particles, because they are of considerable importance in biomedical science and pharmaceutics. So far, all the…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-27 Tong Wu , Weixuan Zhang , Rongyao Wang , Xiangdong Zhang