Formation of chiral fields in a symmetric environment

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26326-26336

  Schäferling, Martin ^a   Yin, Xinghui ^a   Giessen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; DIPOLE MODEL; FAR-FIELD; INCIDENT LIGHT; LINEAR POLARIZATION; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; NORMAL INCIDENCE; OPTICAL CHIRALITY;

CHIRALITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENANTIOMERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

POLARIZATION;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; LIGHT; STEREOISOMERISM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84870588058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026326     Document Type: Conference Paper

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