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As a basic optical element, circular polarizer plays significant roles in signal transmission, measurements and life science microscopy. Three-dimensional (3D) chiral structures have been thought to be necessary to realize circular…

It is shown that the transparency of opaque material with negative permittivity exhibits resonant behavior. The resonance occurs as a result of the excitation of the surface waves at slab boundaries. Dramatic field amplification of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Fourkal , I. Velchev , C-M. Ma , A. Smolyakov

Reflectarrays composed of resonant microstrip gold patches on a dielectric substrate are demonstrated for operation at terahertz frequencies. Based on the relation between the patch size and the reflection phase, a progressive phase…

The phenomenon of negative refraction generally requires negative refractive indices or phase discontinuities, which can be realized using metamaterials or metasurfaces. Recent theories have proposed a novel mechanism for negative…

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

We report observation of reverse Doppler effect in a double negative acoustic metamaterial. The metamaterial exhibited negative phase velocity and positive group velocity. The dispersion relation is such that the wavelength corresponding to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Sam Hyeon Lee , Choon Mahn Park , Yong Mun Seo , Zhi Guo Wang , Chul Koo Kim

Enantioselective interactions of chiral molecules include distinct absorptions to opposite-handed circularly polarized light, known as chiral absorption. Traditionally, chiral absorption has been primarily attributed to electric dipole and…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-03 Hanwei Wang , Yang Zhao

It is reported that the phase time of particles which are reflected by a one-dimensional semi-harmonic well includes a time delay term which is negative for definite intervals of the incoming energy. In this interval, the absolute value of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-21 Oscar Rosas-Ortiz , Sara Cruz y Cruz , Nicolas Fernandez-Garcia

A positively charged, mixed bilayer vesicle in the presence of negatively charged surfaces (for example, colloidal particles) can spontaneously partition into an adhesion zone of definite area, and another zone that repels additional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Helim Aranda-Espinoza , Yi Chen , Nily Dan , TC Lubensky , Philip Nelson , Laurence Ramos , DA Weitz

When an oscillating line source is placed in front of a special mirror consisting of an array of flat uniformly spaced ferrite rods, half of the image disappeared at some frequency. We believe that this comes from the coupling to photonic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-20 Shiyang Liu , Wanli Lu , Zhifang Lin , S. T. Chui

We show that a two-dimensional polaritonic crystal, made of metallic rods that support well defined plasmon oscillations, can act in a narrow frequency range as a medium in which a negative refraction and subwavelength lensing can occur. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 X. Wang , K. Kempa

We analyzed polarization changes of light diffracted on planar chiral array from the standpoint of the Lorentz reciprocity lemma and found the bi-orthogonality in the polarization eigenstates for the waves diffracting though the grating in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 S. L. Prosvirnin , N. I. Zheludev

Topological photonic structures exhibit chiral edge states that are robust to disorder and sharp bends. When coupled to quantum emitters, these edge states generate directional light emission that enables unprecedented control of…

We report that the classical phenomena of optical activity and circular dichroism, which are traditionally associated with chirality (helicity) of organic molecules, proteins and inorganic structures, can be observed in non-chiral…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Plum , V. A. Fedotov , N. I. Zheludev

We propose that chirally asymmetric plasma can be produced in the gap regions of the magnetospheres of pulsars and black holes. We show that, in the case of supermassive black holes situated in active galactic nuclei, the chiral charge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 E. V. Gorbar , I. A. Shovkovy

Negative refraction provides an attractive platform to manipulate mid-infrared and terahertz radiation for molecular sensing and thermal radiation applications. However, its implementation based on available metamaterials and plasmonic…

A density wave in quark matter is discussed at finite temperature, which occurs along with the chiral condensation, and is described by a dual standing wave in scalar and pseudo-scalar condensates on the chiral circle. The mechanism is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 E. Nakano , T. Tatsumi

Chiral four-wave-mixing signals are calculated using the irreducible tensor formalism. Different polarization and crossing angle configurations allow to single out the magnetic dipole and the electric quadrupole interactions. Other…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Jérémy R. Rouxel , Ahmadreza Rajabi , Shaul Mukamel

Besides the well-known negative refraction, a negative refractive-index material can exhibit another two hallmark features, which are the inverse Doppler effect and backward Cherenkov radiation. The former is known as the motion-induced…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-25 Xiao Lin , Baile Zhang

Refraction of obliquely incident plane waves due to the interface of a vacuous half-space and a half-space occupied by a simply moving, nondissipative, isotropic dielectric-magnetic medium is considered, when the medium's velocity lies…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia