Left- and right-circularly polarized light in cascade conical diffraction

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (24) ◽  
pp. 5226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Grant ◽  
Amin Abdolvand
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 3394-3397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takaaki Manaka ◽  
Mitsumasa Iwamoto

Asymmetric polymerization of polydiacetylene (PDA) from commercially available achiral derivative of diacetylene monomer using circularly polarized pulse laser is demonstrated. Chiral source was only circularly polarized laser, and irradiation of left- and right-circularly polarized light effectively promoted the polymerization of chiral PDAs with opposite handedness. Difference between the laser wavelength and the absorption peak of monomer suggested the contribution of the multiphoton excitation to the photo-polymerization. Laser power dependence of the polymerization rate indicated the possibility of three-photon polymerization.


Soft Matter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (39) ◽  
pp. 7802-7808 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Nys ◽  
J. Beeckman ◽  
K. Neyts

A planar liquid crystal (LC) cell is developed in which two photo-alignment layers have been illuminated with respectively a horizontal and a vertical diffraction pattern of interfering left- and right-handed circularly polarized light.


2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (76) ◽  
pp. 11386-11389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuya Wada ◽  
Ken-ichi Shinohara ◽  
Tomoyuki Ikai

We have successfully generated both left- and right-handed circularly polarized light using crystals prepared from a racemic triptycene containing hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene units.


1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Hutchinson

sRosenfeld's formula, for off-resonance optical rotation, is derived by an alternative approach. The scattering amplitudes are determined for the scattering of right circularly polarized light and left circularly polarized light by a molecule. The calculation is carried out to the order of approximation which includes electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole terms. From the real parts of the forward scattering amplitudes the corresponding indices of refraction are determined for left and right circularly polarized light. Rosenfeld's formula then follows from the difference between the two refractive indices.


1997 ◽  
Vol 475 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Rioux ◽  
B. Allen ◽  
H. Höchst ◽  
D. Zhao ◽  
D.L. Huber

ABSTRACTMCD spectra at the M2,3 edge of thin Fe films exhibit thickness-dependent variations in line shape as well as in the absolute MCD-effect. Our data indicate that more information is contained in the MCD spectra than simply the evolution of a magnetic moment and ferromagnetic order. We developed a model to predict line shape modulations as a function of film thickness and angle of light incidence. Using the Fresnel-Maxwell formalism we calculate interference effects between left and right circularly polarized light reflected from the vacuum-film-substrate interfaces which are verified by our MCD measurements. Since the observed interference effects are a function of the excitation wavelength, our results can be directly scaled to show the significance of these effects in the more commonly used L2,3 region of 3d ferromagnets. Our data point out that one might be ill advised to rely onL2,3 MCD experiments to try to extract the formation of magnetic moments in films of several 10s of Å in thickness.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1041-1047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren D. Stevenson ◽  
Xiangbing Zeng ◽  
Chris Welch ◽  
Anil K. Thakur ◽  
Goran Ungar ◽  
...  

Long-range global chirality is confirmed in the twist-bend nematic phase of bent dimers using circular dichroism spectroscopy. The phase absorbs left and right circularly polarized light differently, confirming its helical rather than wavy character.


Soft Matter ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Yoshida ◽  
Shuhei Tamura ◽  
Hidetaka Yuge ◽  
Go Watanabe

A liquid crystal host–guest system composed of achiral organic molecules (host) and colored chiral metal complexes (guest) was fabricated to sense both right- and left-handed circularly polarized light (r- and l-CPL), depending on the guest (dopant) concentration.


Photoniques ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 44-45
Author(s):  
Oriol Arteaga ◽  
Enric Garcia-Caurel ◽  
Razvigor Ossikovski

In 1822 Augustin Fresnel discovered the circular polarization of light with an experiment in which a plane polarized beam was resolved into its left- and right- circularly polarized components after refraction at slightly different angles at the interface between two different species of quartz that formed a composite prism, called the Fresnel triprism. Fresnel’s landmark experiment, once popular, remains today a very little known method for producing circularly polarized light.


Author(s):  
Marcos F. Maestre

Recently we have developed a form of polarization microscopy that forms images using optical properties that have previously been limited to macroscopic samples. This has given us a new window into the distribution of structure on a microscopic scale. We have coined the name differential polarization microscopy to identify the images obtained that are due to certain polarization dependent effects. Differential polarization microscopy has its origins in various spectroscopic techniques that have been used to study longer range structures in solution as well as solids. The differential scattering of circularly polarized light has been shown to be dependent on the long range chiral order, both theoretically and experimentally. The same theoretical approach was used to show that images due to differential scattering of circularly polarized light will give images dependent on chiral structures. With large helices (greater than the wavelength of light) the pitch and radius of the helix could be measured directly from these images.


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