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Chiral electromagnetic fields

Chiral objects are not superimposable on their mirror image. This feature is ubiquituous in nature and can be found, e.g., in chiral molecules, in biological structures, and also in chiral electromagnetic fields. In order to better understand related phenomena, models and rigorous numerical simulations for the electromagnetic chirality density are required.

Metal nano helix and chirality density field

 

In this project, we analyze both theoretically and numerically chiral light fields on the nanoscale. Electromagnetic fields are described with the recently introduced optical chirality density and accessible observables of, e.g., extinction experiments are derived. Applications of these studies range from sensing of chiral analytes to chiral nanoplasmonics.

Chiral fields
Group
Computational Nano Optics
Heads
Burger, Dr. Sven
Members
Burger, Dr. Sven
Partners
Prof. K.M. McPeak (LSU)
Prof. M. Nieto Vesperinas (CSIC)
Related features
Design of Nanophotonic Devices
Funding
FU Berlin - Dahlem Research School
Links
Dahlem Research School
Mc Peak Lab, LSU
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC)

Publications

2020
Role of Geometric Shape in Chiral Optics Symmetry, Vol.12, p. 158, 2020 Philipp Gutsche, Xavier Garcia Santiago, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Kevin McPeak, Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas, Sven Burger BibTeX
DOI
arXiv
2019
Correlation of circular differential optical absorption with geometric chirality in plasmonic meta-atoms Opt. Express, Vol.27, p. 5097, 2019 Jon Wilson, Philipp Gutsche, Sven Herrmann, Sven Burger, Kevin McPeak BibTeX
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2018
Benchmarking state-of-the-art numerical simulation techniques for analyzing large photonic crystal membrane line defect cavities Proc. SPIE, Vol.10672, p. 106721C, 2018 Niels Gregersen, Jakob Rosenkrantz de Lasson, Lars Hagedorn Frandsen, Philipp Gutsche, Sven Burger, Oleksiy S. Kim, Olav Breinbjerg, Aliaksandra Ivinskaya, Fengwen Wang, Ole Sigmund, Teppo Häyrynen, Andrei Lavrinenko BibTeX
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Chiral scatterers designed by Bayesian optimization J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., Vol.963, p. 012004, 2018 Philipp Gutsche, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Sven Burger, Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas BibTeX
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arXiv
Light Management for Engineering Luminescence in Nanoscale Environments By Numerical Optimization The Electrochemical Society, Meeting Abstracts, p. 1164, Vol.16, 2018 Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Xavier Garcia Santiago, Felix Binkowski, Philipp Gutsche, Theresa Höhne, Martin Hammerschmidt, Lin Zschiedrich, Sven Burger BibTeX
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Optical Chirality of Time-Harmonic Wavefields for Classification of Scatterers Sci. Rep., Vol.8, p. 9416, 2018 Philipp Gutsche, Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas BibTeX
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arXiv
2017
Benchmarking five computational methods for analyzing large photonic crystal membrane cavities Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), p. 89, IEEE, 2017 Niels Gregersen, Jakob Rosenkrantz de Lasson, Lars Hagedorn Frandsen, Teppo Häyrynen, Andrei Lavrinenko, Jesper Moerk, Fengwen Wang, Ole Sigmund, Oleksiy S. Kim, Olav Breinbjerg, Aliaksandra Ivinskaya, Philipp Gutsche, Sven Burger BibTeX
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Chiral Nanophotonics: Theory and Simulation Doctoral Summer School on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, ITMO University, 2017 Philipp Gutsche, Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas, Raquel Mäusle, Sven Burger BibTeX
Comparison of five computational methods for computing Q factors in photonic crystal membrane cavities 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2017 Andrey Novitsky, Jakob Rosenkrantz de Lasson, Lars Hagedorn Frandsen, Philipp Gutsche, Sven Burger, Oleksiy S. Kim, Olav Breinbjerg, Aliaksandra Ivinskaya, Fengwen Wang, Ole Sigmund, Teppo Häyrynen, Andrei Lavrinenko, Jesper Mørk, Niels Gregersen BibTeX
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Fundamentals and Applications of an Optical Theorem for Chiral Optical Fields 4th International Conference on Optical Angular Momentum, 2017 Philipp Gutsche, Sven Burger, Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas BibTeX
2016
Circular polarization phenomena in chiral nano-optical devices Light, Energy and the Environment 2016, p. JW4A.4, OSA Technical Digest, 2016 Philipp Gutsche, Raquel Mäusle, Sven Burger BibTeX
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Insights into directional scattering: from coupled dipoles to asymmetric dimer nanoantennas Opt. Express, 24(17), pp. 19638-19650, 2016 Aimi Abass, Philipp Gutsche, Bjorn Maes, Carsten Rockstuhl, Emiliano R Martins BibTeX
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Locally Enhanced and Tunable Optical Chirality in Helical Metamaterials Photonics, Vol.3, p. 60, 2016 Philipp Gutsche, Raquel Mäusle, Sven Burger BibTeX
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arXiv
Optical chirality: conservation law in arbitrary space 606. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Nanophotonics and Complex Spatial Modes of Light, 2016 Philipp Gutsche, Lisa Poulikakos, Sven Burger, Martin Hammerschmidt, Frank Schmidt BibTeX
Tailoring local optical chirality in helical metamaterials 2016 10th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, pp. 73-75, IEEE, 2016 Philipp Gutsche, Raquel Mäusle, Sven Burger BibTeX
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The Chiral Coefficient: Rapid Optimization of Broadband Plasmonic Chirality 2016 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, 2016 Jon Wilson, Sven Herrmann, Philipp Gutsche, Sven Burger, Kevin McPeak BibTeX
The Optical Chirality Flux as a Useful Far-Field Probe of Chiral Near Fields ACS Photonics, Vol.3, p. 1619, 2016 Lisa Poulikakos, Philipp Gutsche, Kevin McPeak, Sven Burger, Jens Niegemann, Christian Hafner, David Norris BibTeX
arXiv
DOI
Time-harmonic optical chirality in inhomogeneous space Proc. SPIE, Vol.9756, p. 97560X, 2016 Philipp Gutsche, Lisa Poulikakos, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt BibTeX
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arXiv
2015
A Far-Field Interpretation of Optical Chirality in Analogy to Poynting’s Theorem META '15 Proceedings, pp. 1215-1216, 2015 Lisa Poulikakos, Philipp Gutsche, Kevin McPeak, Sven Burger, Jens Niegemann, Christian Hafner, David Norris BibTeX
A Far-Field Interpretation of the Optical Chirality Frontiers in Nanophotonics (Congressi Stefano Franscini), 2015 Lisa Poulikakos, Philipp Gutsche, Kevin McPeak, Sven Burger, Jens Niegemann, Christian Hafner, David Norris BibTeX
2014
Convergence Study of the Fourier Modal Method for Nano-optical Scattering Problems in Comparison with the Finite Element Method Master's thesis, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Thomas Judd, Frank Schmidt (Advisors), 2014 Philipp Gutsche PDF
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