Chirality in light–matter interaction

A Lininger, G Palermo, A Guglielmelli… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The scientific effort to control the interaction between light and matter has grown
exponentially in the last 2 decades. This growth has been aided by the development of …

Chiral light–chiral matter interactions: an optical force perspective

C Genet - ACS photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
Optical forces are involved in many physical processes and are used routinely in the
laboratory for manipulating and cooling matter, from the micro down to the quantum scales. It …

The trend of structured light-induced force microscopy: a review

J Zeng, Y Dong, J Zhang, J Wang - Journal of Optics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Modern nanotechnology demands advanced microscopy with ever finer resolution and
detectivity of both explicit and inexplicit features of matter. While typical optical microscopy …

Nanoscopic observation of chiro-optical force

J Yamanishi, HY Ahn, H Okamoto - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nanoscopic observation of chiro-optical phenomena is essential in wide scientific areas but
has measurement difficulties; hence, its physics is still unknown. To obtain a full …

Giant circular dichroism at visible frequencies enabled by plasmonic ramp-shaped nanostructures

M Rajaei, J Zeng, M Albooyeh, M Kamandi… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic nanostructures with spatial symmetry breaking have a variety of applications,
from enhancing the enantioselective detection of chiral molecules to creating photonics …

Optical separation and discrimination of chiral particles by vector beams with orbital angular momentum

M Li, S Yan, Y Zhang, X Chen, B Yao - Nanoscale Advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Chirality describes a reduced symmetry and abounds in nature. The handedness-
dependent response usually occurs only when a chiral object interacts with another chiral …

Spin-orbit interactions and chiroptical effects engaging orbital angular momentum of twisted light in chiral and achiral media

KA Forbes, DL Andrews - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
There is recurrent interest in the orbital angular momentum (OAM) conveyed by optical
vortices, which are structured beams with a helically twisted wave front. Particular …

Exclusive magnetic excitation enabled by structured light illumination in a nanoscale mie resonator

J Zeng, M Darvishzadeh-Varcheie, M Albooyeh… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Recent work has shown that optical magnetism, generally considered a challenging light–
matter interaction, can be significant at the nanoscale. In particular, the dielectric …

Force detection of electromagnetic chirality of tightly focused laser beams

AA Sifat, F Capolino, EO Potma - ACS Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
We theoretically show that the optical chiral properties of tightly focused laser beams can be
characterized by means of force detection. To measure the chiral properties of a beam of …

Optical lateral forces and torques induced by chiral surface-plasmon-polaritons and their potential applications in recognition and separation of chiral enantiomers

Q Zhang, J Li, X Liu - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface plasmon polaritons carry an intrinsic transverse spin angular momentum which is
locked to their propagation direction due to the quantum spin Hall effect of light. We study …