Optically active natural or artificial materials are characterized by their optical rotation and
circular dichroism. The optical activity of materials is expressed here by the constitutive …

Detection, identification, and characterization of natural and artificial chiral materials have
found numerous applications in biochemistry, chemistry, drugs, medicine, and engineering …

Optical activity and circular dichroism are the intrinsic properties of chiral medium. The
control of these proprieties of a medium has drawn considerable attention due to the recent …

Biological and chemical materials can be detected, identified, and characterized through
their optical activity: optical rotation and circular dichroism. The optical activity of chiral …

A detailed description of an optical polarimetric scatterometer, its capabilities, and special
application are presented. This instrument measures the 4× 4 Mueller matrix elements as …

Polarized light that is reflected or transmitted through chiral specimens can be used to detect
and identify biological and chemical materials including human tissue. The determination of …

Featured Application The analysis of the transmission of Mueller matrices facilitates studies
of optical activity in samples that also exhibit linear anisotropy and depolarization and may …

The common definition of the Brewster angles for dielectric and magnetic achiral materials
are the angles at which the vertically and horizontally polarized reflection coefficients vanish …

The road maps presented provide several options to detect and identify biological and
chemical materials based on the appropriate measurements of specific Mueller matrix …

The introduction of polarimetry in optical imaging of biological tissues provides a powerful
method to enhance contrast and specificity in the characterization of anisotropic biological …