Exhibited by structurally chiral materials—such as Reusch piles, cholesteric liquid crystals
(CLCs), and chiral sculptured thin films (STFs)—due to their helical nonhomogeneity along a …

A left-handed chiral sculptured thin film (STF) that reflects strongly at the wavelength of the
circular Bragg resonance tends to partially convert the handedness of incident LCP (left …

Temporally periodic physical vapor deposition (TP-PVD) is commonly used to fabricate
Bragg mirrors on planar surfaces. These devices are notionally of infinite transverse extent …

A 20-period-thick chiral sculptured thin film (STF) of zinc selenide was fabricated on a glass
slide by thermal evaporation. A variable-angle spectroscopic system was devised and used …

We demonstrate analytically that two types of spectral holes located approximately in the
center of the Bragg regime could be exhibited by a slanted chiral sculptured thin film (STF) …

Chiral sculptured thin films (STFs) are periodically anisotropic, and exhibit the circular Bragg
phenomenon over a certain wavelength regime on axial excitation. Among the key …

A theory of reflection and transmission of normally incident plane waves to a chiral
sculptured thin film (CSTF) is presented. It is based on a coupled wave approach, in which …

Axially excited chiral sculptured thin films (STFs) are shown to display the circular Bragg
phenomenon in more than one wavelength-regime, owing to the dispersion inherent in their …

Reported here is the derivation of analytic expressions for the reflection coeffcients of a
halfspace filled by a chiral sculptured thin film (STF) that is axially excited by a normally …

We study the scattering of pulsed optical beams from chiral sculptured thin films (STFs). The
spatiotemporal anatomy of the circular Bragg phenomenon (CBP) exhibited by chiral STFs is …