Tailoring Enhanced Optical Chirality: Design Principles for Chiral Plasmonic Nanostructures

Electromagnetic fields with strong optical chirality can be formed in the near field of chiral plasmonic nanostructures. We calculate and visualize the degree of chirality to identify regions with relatively high values. This analysis leads to design principles for a simple utilization of chiral fie...

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Main Authors: Martin Schäferling, Daniel Dregely, Mario Hentschel, Harald Giessen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2012-08-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.2.031010