Chirality in light–matter interaction

A Lininger, G Palermo, A Guglielmelli… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The scientific effort to control the interaction between light and matter has grown
exponentially in the last 2 decades. This growth has been aided by the development of …

Bianisotropic metasurfaces: physics and applications

VS Asadchy, A Díaz-Rubio, SA Tretyakov - Nanophotonics, 2018 - degruyter.com
Metasurfaces as optically thin composite layers can be modeled as electric and magnetic
surface current sheets flowing in the layer volume in the metasurface plane. In the most …

Planar chiral metasurfaces with maximal and tunable chiroptical response driven by bound states in the continuum

T Shi, ZL Deng, G Geng, X Zeng, Y Zeng, G Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optical metasurfaces with high quality factors (Q-factors) of chiral resonances can boost
substantially light-matter interaction for various applications of chiral response in ultrathin …

Multispectral chiral imaging with a metalens

M Khorasaninejad, WT Chen, AY Zhu, J Oh… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The vast majority of biologically active compounds, ranging from amino acids to essential
nutrients such as glucose, possess intrinsic handedness. This in turn gives rise to chiral …

Silicon nanofin grating as a miniature chirality-distinguishing beam-splitter

M Khorasaninejad, KB Crozier - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
The polarization of light plays a central role in its interaction with matter, in situations ranging
from familiar (for example, reflection and transmission at an interface) to sophisticated (for …

Robust generation of intrinsic C points with magneto-optical bound states in the continuum

W Lv, H Qin, Z Su, C Zhang, J Huang, Y Shi, B Li… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
C points, circular polarization in momentum space, play crucial roles in chiral wave
manipulations. However, conventional approaches of achieving intrinsic C points using …

Chirality and chiroptical effects in inorganic nanocrystal systems with plasmon and exciton resonances

A Ben-Moshe, BM Maoz, AO Govorov… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper reviews the recent advances in experiment and theory of the induction of
chiroptical effects, primarily circular dichroism (CD), at the plasmonic and excitonic …

Terahertz metamaterial with asymmetric transmission

R Singh, E Plum, C Menzel, C Rockstuhl, AK Azad… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
We show that a planar metamaterial, an array of coupled metal split-ring resonators with a
unit cell lacking mirror symmetry, exhibits asymmetric transmission of terahertz radiation …

Resonant chiral effects in nonlinear dielectric metasurfaces

K Koshelev, Y Tang, Z Hu, II Kravchenko, G Li… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We study the resonant enhancement of linear and nonlinear chiroptical effects in planar
silicon metasurfaces with an in-plane asymmetry supporting multipolar Mie resonances and …

The Beginner's Guide to Chiral Plasmonics: Mostly Harmless Theory and the Design of Large‐Area Substrates

ESA Goerlitzer, AS Puri, JJ Moses… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Chiral plasmonics is a fascinating research field that is attractive to scientists from diverse
backgrounds. Physicists study light–matter interactions, chemists seek ways to analyze …