Journal
ACS NANO
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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c10687
Keywords
microadditive manufacturing; copper microhelix; vortex beam; orbital angular momentum; helical dichroism; chiroptical response
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Artificial chiral micronanostructures with strong chiroptical signals are significant for next generation photonic devices and chiroptical spectroscopy techniques. However, most of the existing chiral metallic metamaterials generate chiroptical signals dependent on photonic spin angular momentum, while those dependent on photonic orbital angular momentum remain unseen. In this work, copper microhelices with opposite handedness are fabricated using additive manufacturing and their orbital angular momentum-dominated chiroptical response is examined. They exhibit helical dichroism and hold promise in advanced chiroptical spectroscopy and photonic OAM engineering.
Three-dimensional chiral metallic metamaterials have already attracted extensive attention in the wide research fields of chiroptical responses. These artificial chiral micronanostructures, possessing strong chiroptical signals, show huge significance in next generation photonic devices and chiroptical spectroscopy techniques. However, most of the existing chiral metallic metamaterials are designed for generating chiroptical signals dependent on photonic spin angular momentum (SAM). The chiral metallic metamaterials for generating strong chiroptical responses by photonic orbital angular momentum (OAM) remain unseen. In this work, we fabricate copper microhelices with opposite handedness by additively manufacturing and further examine their OAM-dominated chiroptical response: helical dichroism (HD). The chiral copper microhelices exhibit differential reflection to the opposite OAM states, resulting in a significant HD signal (similar to 50%). The origin of the HD can be theoretically explained by the difference in photocurrent distribution inside copper microhelices under opposite OAM states. Moreover, the additively manufactured copper microhelices possess an excellent microstructural stability under varying annealing temperatures for robust HD responses. Lower material cost and noble-metal-similar optical properties, accompanied with well thermal stability, render the copper microhelices promising metamaterials in advanced chiroptical spectroscopy and photonic OAM engineering.
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