Chinese Physics B, Volume. 29, Issue 10, (2020)

Enhanced reflection chiroptical effect of planar anisotropic chiral metamaterials placed on the interface of two media

Xiu Yang1, Tao Wei2, Feiliang Chen3, Fuhua Gao1,4, Jinglei Du1,4、†, and Yidong Hou1
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 60065, China
  • 2School of Medical Information Engineering, Jining Medical University, Jining 7067, China
  • 3Microsystem & Terahertz Research Center of CAEP, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Chengdu 610299, China
  • 4High Energy Density Physics of the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory, Sichuan University, Chengdu 61006, China
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    The strong chiroptical effect is highly desirable and has a wide range of applications in biosensing, chiral catalysis, polarization tuning, and chiral photo detection. In this work, we find a simple method to enhance the reflection circular dichroism (CDR) by placing the planar anisotropic chiral metamaterials (i.e., Z-shaped PACMs) on the interface of two media (i.e., Z-PCMI) with a large refractive index difference. The maximum reflection CDR from the complex system can reach about 0.840 when the refractive index is set as ntop = 4.0 and nbottom = 1.49, which is approximately three times larger than that of placing the Z-shaped PACMs directly on the substrate (i.e., Z-PCMS). While the minimum reflection CDR is 0.157 when the refractive index is set as nbottom = 1.49. So we can get a large available range of reflection CDR from –0.840 to –0.157. Meanwhile, the transmission CDT remains unchanged with the refractive index ntop increment. Our in-depth research indicates that the large reflection CDR is derived from the difference of non-conversion components of the planar anisotropic chiral metamaterials’ reflection matrices. In short, we provide a simple and practical method to enhance the chiroptical effect by changing the refractive index difference between two media without having to design a complex chiral structure.

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    Xiu Yang, Tao Wei, Feiliang Chen, Fuhua Gao, Jinglei Du, Yidong Hou. Enhanced reflection chiroptical effect of planar anisotropic chiral metamaterials placed on the interface of two media[J]. Chinese Physics B, 2020, 29(10):

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    Paper Information

    Received: Apr. 6, 2020

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Apr. 21, 2021

    The Author Email: Du Jinglei (houyd@scu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1088/1674-1056/ab9def

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