Circular dichroism in the second harmonic field evidenced by asymmetric Au coated GaAs nanowires

A Belardini, G Leahu, E Petronijevic, T Hakkarainen… - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Optical circular dichroism (CD) is an important phenomenon in nanophotonics, that
addresses top level applications such as circular polarized photon generation in optics …

Evidence of Optical Circular Dichroism in GaAs‐Based Nanowires Partially Covered with Gold

G Leahu, E Petronijevic, A Belardini… - Advanced Optical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Semiconductor nanostructures hybridized with metals have been known to offer new
opportunities in nonlinear optics, plasmonics, lasing, biosensors; among them GaAs‐based …

One-fold anisotropy of silver chiral nanoparticles studied by second-harmonic generation

B Dong, J Liu, M Xue, Z Ni, Y Guo, Z Huang… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Second-harmonic generation (SHG) integrated with diverse nonlinear optical activity
characterization has high sensitivity to detect the symmetry of materials at an interface, but …

Photo-acoustic spectroscopy reveals extrinsic optical chirality in GaAs-based nanowires partially covered with gold

E Petronijevic, G Leahu, A Belardini, M Centini… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
We report on the extrinsic chirality behavior of GaAs-based NWs asymmetrically hybridized
with Au. The samples are fabricated by a recently developed, lithography-free self-organized …

Plasmonic ratchet wheels: switching circular dichroism by arranging chiral nanostructures

VK Valev, N Smisdom, AV Silhanek, B De Clercq… - Nano …, 2009 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate circular dichroism (CD) in the second harmonic generation (SHG) signal
from chiral assemblies of G-shaped nanostructures made of gold. The arrangement of the G …

Nonlinear chiral imaging of subwavelength-sized twisted-cross gold nanodimers

MJ Huttunen, G Bautista, M Decker, S Linden… - Optical Materials …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We perform second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy with circularly polarized (CP)
light to measure chirality of individual twisted-cross gold nanodimers. The chiral signatures …

Chiral near-field manipulation in Au-GaAs hybrid hexagonal nanowires

E Petronijevic, M Centini, A Belardini, G Leahu… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the control of enhanced chiral field distribution at the surface of hybrid
metallo-dielectric nanostructures composed of self-assembled vertical hexagonal GaAs …

Linearly polarized second harmonic generation microscopy reveals chirality

VK Valev, AV Silhanek, N Smisdom, B De Clercq… - Optics …, 2010 - opg.optica.org
In optics, chirality is typically associated with circularly polarized light. Here we present a
novel way to detect the handedness of chiral materials with linearly polarized light. We …

Second harmonic generation on self-assembled tilted gold nanowires

A Belardini, M Centini, G Leahu, E Fazio, C Sibilia… - Faraday …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Here we present measurements on a metasurface composed by tilted gold nanowires. The
metasurface can induce an optical chiral response of the whole sample when the light …

[PDF][PDF] A study of chirality in gold nanostructures with second harmonic generation

V Valev, A Silhanek, W Gillijns… - … Physica Polonica A, 2009 - bibliotekanauki.pl
We present the second harmonic generation-circular dichroism response from G-shaped
gold nanostructures for P-polarized incoming light. By eliminating the contributions of …