2016
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201505640
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Giant Nonlinear Optical Activity of Achiral Origin in Planar Metasurfaces with Quadratic and Cubic Nonlinearities

Abstract: 3D chirality is shown to be unnecessary for introducing strong circular dichroism for harmonic generations. Specifically, near-unity circular dichroism for both second-harmonic generation and third-harmonic generations is demonstrated on suitably designed ultrathin plasmonic metasurfaces with only 2D planar chirality. The study opens up new routes for designing chip-type biosensing platform, which may allow for highly sensitive detection of bio- and chemical molecules with weak chirality.

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“…A few recent examples include S-shaped nanostructures, [19,20] three-and fourfold symmetric propellers, [21] and heptamers. [22] These planar chiral nanostructures are very attractive because of their ease of fabrication with electron beam lithography.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…A few recent examples include S-shaped nanostructures, [19,20] three-and fourfold symmetric propellers, [21] and heptamers. [22] These planar chiral nanostructures are very attractive because of their ease of fabrication with electron beam lithography.…”
Section: Doi: 101002/adma201605110mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…From the viewpoint of classical electrodynamics, the degeneracy between the helicity eigenmodes of light, i.e., left and right circularly polarized (LCP and RCP) waves, is broken due to cross coupling between the electric and magnetic dipoles in a chiral medium, leading to differential extinction (CD) or transmission (optical activity) for LCP/ RCP waves. Compared with naturally occurring materials, they often have significantly enhanced chirality and thus enable many fascinating phenomena such as pronounced linear [4][5][6][7] and nonlinear chiroptical effects, [8,9] negative refraction, [10][11][12] manipulating Casimir effect, [13][14][15] unusual spin Hall effect of light, [16] and chiral-selective nonlinear imaging. However, these effects induced by magnetoelectric coupling in natural materials, particularly in biomolecules like amino acids, sugars, proteins, and viruses, are often very weak.…”
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“…16 The interplay of nonlinearity and circular dichroism (CD) was highlighted from the observation of strong cross-phase modulation and four-wave mixing in a type of varactor-loaded nonlinear chiral metamaterial. 17 Chirality signatures of individual twisted-cross gold nanodimers via SHG microscopy, 18 nonlinear imaging and spectroscopy of artificial enantiomers of a twisted-arc metamaterial, 19 and harmonic generation of optical activity 22 Furthermore, we also demonstrate that rotating the gammadion around its rotational axis can continuously control the phase of the THG, and thus can be utilized in the FZP design to rotate the polarization of the output THG signals. Fig.…”
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“…15 Recently, there is also a growing interest in nonlinear optical signals generated from chiral plasmonic nanostructures, which provide a promising platform to study chiral-selective nonlinear optical interactions. [16][17][18][19][20][21][22] For example, asymmetric SHG from chiral G-shaped gold nanostructures upon a reverse of the handedness of the structures was presented. 16 The interplay of nonlinearity and circular dichroism (CD) was highlighted from the observation of strong cross-phase modulation and four-wave mixing in a type of varactor-loaded nonlinear chiral metamaterial.…”
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confidence: 99%