Evolution of Airy beams in a chiral medium

F Zhuang, X Du, Y Ye, D Zhao - Optics Letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We study the evolution of Airy beams in chiral media. We numerically demonstrate that the
circularly polarized Airy beams of opposite handedness can be separated when traveling …

Propagation of a vortex Airy beam in chiral medium

X Liu, D Zhao - Optics Communications, 2014 - Elsevier
The analytical expression for the propagation of a vortex Airy beam through ABCD optical
systems is derived. As an example, the propagation of the beam in chiral medium is …

Paraxial propagation of cosine-hyperbolic-Gaussian beams in a chiral medium

Z Hricha, M Lazrek, A Belafhal - Journal of Modern Optics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The properties of a linearly polarized cosine-hyperbolic-Gaussian beam (ChGB)
propagating in a chiral medium are investigated theoretically by using the Huygens-Fresnel …

Polarization modulation for a stochastic electromagnetic beam passing through a chiral medium

F Zhuang, X Du, D Zhao - Optics letters, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We study the propagation of a stochastic electromagnetic beam through a chiral medium.
The cross-spectral density matrix is deduced and employed to calculate the changes in the …

Enhancement of circular differential deflection of light in an optically active medium

RP Rajan, A Ghosh - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
In this letter, we investigate the circular differential deflection of a light beam refracted at the
interface of an optically active medium. We show that the difference between the angles of …

Road maps for the use of Mueller matrix measurements to detect and identify biological and chemical materials through their optical activity: potential applications in …

E Bahar - JOSA B, 2009 - opg.optica.org
The road maps presented provide several options to detect and identify biological and
chemical materials based on the appropriate measurements of specific Mueller matrix …

Scattering from a slightly rough chiral surface: analysis with the small perturbation method and the small slope approximation

S Afifi, D Richard - JOSA A, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We study the scattering of a linearly polarized electromagnetic plane wave by a two-
dimensional random slightly rough surface separating the vacuum from a chiral medium. We …

Propagation of Airy-related beams generated from flat-topped Gaussian beams through a chiral slab

Z Liu, D Zhao - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
We derived the analytical expression for the propagation of Airy-related beams generated
from flat-topped Gaussian beams through an ABCD optical system, and use it to study the …

Cross polarization of lateral waves propagating along a free-space–chiral planar interface: applications to identification of optically active materials

E Bahar - JOSA B, 2011 - opg.optica.org
Biological and chemical materials can be detected, identified, and characterized through
their optical activity: optical rotation and circular dichroism. The optical activity of chiral …

Reflection and transmission matrices at a free-space-chiral interface based on the invariant constitutive relations for gyrotropic media and the Drude-Born-Federov …

E Bahar - JOSA A, 2009 - opg.optica.org
The expressions for the linear and cross-polarized reflection and transmission coefficients
based on the invariant gyrotropic constitutive relations and the Drude-Born-Federov …