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APPLIED PHYSICS REVIEWS
卷 7, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0025006
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- Hector Fellow Academy
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy via the Excellence Cluster 3D Matter Made to Order [EXC-2082/1-390761711, SFB 1173, 258734477]
- Carl Zeiss Foundation
- Helmholtz Association via the Helmholtz program Materials Systems Engineering (MSE)
- KIT through the Virtual Materials Design (VIRTMAT) project
- Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics (KSOP)
The differential response of chiral molecules to incident left- and right-handed circularly polarized light is used for sensing the handedness of molecules. Currently, significant effort is directed toward enhancing weak differential signals from the molecules, with the goal of extending the capabilities of chiral spectrometers to lower molecular concentrations or small analyte volumes. Previously, optical cavities for enhancing vibrational circular dichroism have been introduced. Their enhancements are mediated by helicity-preserving cavity modes which maintain the handedness of light due to their degenerate TE and TM components. In this article, we simplify the design of the cavity and numerically compare it with the previous one using an improved model for the response of chiral molecules. We use parameters of molecular resonances to show that the cavities are capable of bringing the vibrational circular dichroism signal over the detection threshold of typical spectrometers for concentrations that are one to three orders of magnitude smaller than those needed without the cavities, for a fixed analyte volume. Frequency resolutions of current spectrometers result in enhancements of more than one order (two orders) of magnitude for the new (previous) design. With improved frequency resolution, the new design achieves enhancements of three orders of magnitude. We show that the TE/TM degeneracy in perfectly helicity-preserving modes is lifted by factors that are inherent to the cavities. More surprisingly, this degeneracy is also lifted by the molecules themselves due to their lack of electromagnetic duality symmetry, that is, due to the partial change of helicity during the light-molecule interactions.
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