Chiral optical fields: a unified formulation of helicity scattered from particles and dichroism enhancement

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2016.0314zbMATH Open1404.78028arXiv1609.07889OpenAlexW2525132040WikidataQ47965023 ScholiaQ47965023MaRDI QIDQ4560633FDOQ4560633

Authors: Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas 

Publication date: 12 December 2018

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We establish a general unified formulation which, using the optical theorem of electromagnetic helicity, shows that dichorism is a phenomenon arising in any scattering -or diffraction- process, elastic or not, of chiral electromagnetic fields by objects either chiral or achiral. It is shown how this approach paves the way to overcoming well-known limitations of standard circular dichroism, like its weak signal or the difficulties of using it with magnetodielectric particles. Based on the angular spectrum representation of optical fields with only right circular or left circular plane waves, we introduce beams with transverse elliptic polarization and posessing a longitudinal component. Then our formulation for general optical fields shows how to enhance the extinction rate of incident helicity, (and therefore the dichroism signal), versus that of energy of the light scattered or emitted by a particle, or viceversa.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07889

Recommendations

• Maximizing the electromagnetic chirality of thin dielectric tubes
• The definition and measurement of electromagnetic chirality
• Quantum theory of natural circular, magneto-chiral and non-reciprocal linear dichroism
• Chirality notions and electromagnetic scattering: a mini review
• Optical dichroism: E1–M1 integral relations

zbMATH Keywords

scatteringdichroismelectromagnetic helicity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45)

Cites Work

• Table of integrals, series, and products. Translated from the Russian. Translation edited and with a preface by Alan Jeffrey and Daniel Zwillinger. With one CD-ROM (Windows, Macintosh and UNIX)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Optical helicity, optical spin and related quantities in electromagnetic theory
• Existence of a New Conservation Law in Electromagnetic Theory
• Scattering and Diffraction in Physical Optics
• Title not available (Why is that?)

Cited In (3)

• Quantum theory of natural circular, magneto-chiral and non-reciprocal linear dichroism
• Optical dichroism: E1–M1 integral relations
• Optimal view angle of chiral particles on the two-dimensional Vicsek model

This page was built for publication: Chiral optical fields: a unified formulation of helicity scattered from particles and dichroism enhancement

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4560633)