Helicity Maximization of Structured Light to Empower Nanoscale Chiral Matter Interaction
arXiv:1809.04119 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.165419
Abstract
Structured light enables the characterization of chirality of optically small nanoparticles by taking advantage of the helicity maximization concept recently introduced in[1]. By referring to fields with nonzero helicity density as chiral fields, we first investigate the properties of two chiral optical beams in obtaining helicity density localization and maximization requirements. The investigated beams include circularly polarized Gaussian beams and also an optical beam properly composed by a combination of a radially and an azi-muthally polarized beam. To acquire further enhancement and localization of helicity density beyond the diffraction limit, we also study chiral fields at the vicinity of a spherical dielectric nanoantenna and demon-strate that the helicity density around such a nanoantenna is a superposition of helicity density of the illu-minating field, scattered field, and an interference helicity term. Moreover, we illustrate when the nanoan-tenna is illuminated by a proper combination of azimuthal and radially polarized beams, the scattered nearfields satisfy the helicity maximization conditions beyond the diffraction limit. The application of the concept of helicity maximization to nanoantennas and generating optimally chiral nearfield result in helici-ty enhancement which is of great advantage in areas like detection of nanoscale chiral samples, microsco-py, and optical manipulation of chiral nanoparticles.
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