Extrinsic chirality: tunable optically active reflectors and perfect absorbers
Extrinsic chirality: tunable optically active reflectors and perfect absorbers
Conventional three-dimensionally (3D) chiral media can exhibit optical activity for transmitted waves, but optical activity for reflected waves is negligible. This work shows that mirror asymmetry of the experimental arrangement - extrinsic 3D chirality - leads to giant optical activity for reflected waves with fundamentally different characteristics. It is demonstrated experimentally that extrinsically 3D-chiral illumination of a lossy metasurface backed by a mirror enables tunable circular dichroism and circular birefringence as well as perfect absorption of circularly polarized waves. In contrast, such polarization phenomena vanish for conventional optically active media backed by a mirror.
Plum, Eric
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June 2016
Plum, Eric
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Plum, Eric
(2016)
Extrinsic chirality: tunable optically active reflectors and perfect absorbers.
Applied Physics Letters, 108, [241905].
(doi:10.1063/1.4954033).
Abstract
Conventional three-dimensionally (3D) chiral media can exhibit optical activity for transmitted waves, but optical activity for reflected waves is negligible. This work shows that mirror asymmetry of the experimental arrangement - extrinsic 3D chirality - leads to giant optical activity for reflected waves with fundamentally different characteristics. It is demonstrated experimentally that extrinsically 3D-chiral illumination of a lossy metasurface backed by a mirror enables tunable circular dichroism and circular birefringence as well as perfect absorption of circularly polarized waves. In contrast, such polarization phenomena vanish for conventional optically active media backed by a mirror.
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 May 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 14 June 2016
Published date: June 2016
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Optoelectronics Research Centre
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Local EPrints ID: 395996
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/395996
ISSN: 0003-6951
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