Spontaneous natural optical activity in disordered media

We theoretically demonstrate natural optical activity in disordered ensembles of nonchiral plasmonic resonators. We show that the statistical distributions of rotatory power and spatial dichroism are strongly dependent on the scattering mean free path in diffusive random media. This result is explai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pinheiro, F. A., Fedotov, V. A., Papasimakis, N., Zheludev, Nikolay I.
Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81340
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46614