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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 20, Issue 24, Pages 26326-26336Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026326
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- BMBF [13N9048, 13N10146]
- DFG [SPP1391, GI 269/11-1]
- BW Stiftung (Spitzenforschung II)
- MWK BW [Az: 7533-7-11.6-8]
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
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Chiral fields, i.e., electromagnetic fields with nonvanishing optical chirality, can occur next to symmetric nanostructures without geometrical chirality illuminated with linearly polarized light at normal incidence. A simple dipole model is utilized to explain this behavior theoretically. Illuminated with circularly polarized light, the chiral near-fields are still dominated by the distributions found for the linear polarization but show additional features due to the optical chirality of the incident light. Rotating the angle of linear polarization introduces more subtle changes to the distribution of optical chirality. Using our findings, we propose a novel scheme to obtain chiroptical far-field response using linearly polarized light, which could be utilized for applications such as optical enantiomer sensing. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America
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