Optical chirality without optical activity: How surface plasmons give a twist to light

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 12559-12570

  Drezet, Aurélien ^a   Genet, Cyriaque ^a   Laluet, Jean Yves ^a   Ebbesen, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

META-OBJECTS; METALLIC OBJECTS; NANO-STRUCTURED; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; OPTICAL CHIRALITY; POLARIZATION TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE PLASMONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CHIRAL OBJECTS;

PLASMONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 50049083828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012559     Document Type: Article

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