Optical activity is one of the most fascinating phenomena revealed by polarized light. It is
observed when chiral materials interact with polarized electromagnetic beams and …

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 …

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

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 …

Mechanisms of molecular chirality induction are fundamental to many questions in
chemistry. Interest in these mechanisms is shifting toward media of increasing complexity …

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 …

Chirality in materials and light is of abiding interest across a broad range of scientific
disciplines. This article discusses present and emerging issues in relation to molecular and …

The differential Mueller matrix is an important concept for analyzing the polarization
properties of an optically homogeneous anisotropic sample, both nondepolarizing and …

The chirality of a supramolecular assembly provides particularly valuable information
because the bonding nature of noncovalent interactions, such as electrostatic interactions, π …

In the transparent region of the spectrum, natural optical activity commonly manifests itself as
a rotation in the plane of polarization for electromagnetic radiation passing through an …