

Chiral Surface Waves for
Enhanced Circular Dichroism
Giovanni Pellegrini , Marco Finazzi, Michele Celebrate, Lamberto Duò and Paolo Biagioni



Chiral Molecules
Helicene

DNA

Proteine

Dichroism
Light and Chirality

Birefringence
Light and Chirality



From dichroism to structure
alpha helix
beta sheet
Light and Chirality

From chirality to superchirality


Molecule
Light


From chirality to superchirality




From chirality to superchirality


Martin Schäferling Chiral Nanophotonics - Chiral Optical Properties of Plasmonic systems, Springer, (2016)

From chirality to superchirality



M. Finazzi, P. Biagioni, M. Celebrano, and L. Duò, Quasistatic limit for plasmon-enhanced optical chirality, Phys. Rev. B, 91, 195427, (2015)

Chiral Surface Waves

1D Photonic Crystal

Chiral Surface Waves

1D Photonic Crystal

Chiral Surface Waves

Dispersion Relations

Chiral Surface Waves


Reflectance

Chiral Surface Waves

Optical Chirality

Chiral Surface Waves


Enhanced Circular Dichroism
G. Pellegrini, M. Finazzi, M. Celebrano, L. Duò, and P. Biagioni, “Chiral surface waves for enhanced circular dichroism,” Phys. Rev. B, 95, 241402, 2017

From Chirality to Superchirality




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