Angular momentum-induced circular dichroism in non-chiral nanostructures
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Circular dichroism, that is, the differential absorption of a system to left and right circularly polarized light, is one of the only techniques capable of providing morphological information of certain samples. In biology, for instance, circular dichroism spectroscopy is widely used to study the structure of proteins. More recently, it has also been used to characterize metamaterials and plasmonic structures. Typically, circular dichorism can only be observed in chiral objects. Here we present experimental results showing that a non-chiral sample such as a subwavelength circular nanoaperture can produce giant circular dichroism when a vortex beam is used to excite it. These measurements can be understood by studying the symmetries of the sample and the total angular momentum that vortex beams carry. Our results show that circular dichroism can provide a wealth of information about the sample when combined with the control of the total angular momentum of the input field.
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For a planar anisotropic element (transparent retarder with phase δ and anisotropy axis at angle α), the Jones-matrix transformation of wave polarization becomes (5), with off-diagonal elements originating from geometric phases induced by rotation of coordinates.
“Performing a rotation by the angle α to the laboratory coordinate frame and also writing this matrix in the helicity basis of right-hand and left-hand circular polarizations, the Jones-matrix transformation of the wave polarization becomes 5,6,37- 39,114”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe off-diagonal geometric-phase elements of Eq. (5) offer helicity-dependent manipulation of light using the orientation of the anisotropy axis; anisotropic subwavelength gratings with space-variant orientation have been employed for geometric-phase-induced shaping of light.
“The off-diagonal geometric-phase elements of Eq. (5) offer helicity-dependent manipulation of light using the orientation of the anisotropy axis. In particular, anisotropic subwavelength gratings with space-variant orientation α = α x , y ( ) have been employed for the geometric-phase-induced shaping of light 5,6,37- 39,41,114- 117 .”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe x-variant anisotropic structure deflects right-hand and left-hand polarized beams in opposite x-directions.
“Thus, the x -variant anisotropic structure deflects right-hand and left-hand polarized beams in opposite x -directions 5,37,42,114 .”
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The Discussion describes polarization-dependent transmission through a cylindrically symmetric target, and the Methods describe mirror-related transmitted fields. Neither passage addresses an x-variant anisotropic structure deflecting right- and left-hand polarized beams in opposite x-directions; searches for deflection and transverse steering found no such passage in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.74)
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