Enhanced chiral sensing in achiral nanostructures with linearly polarized light

  • Liu W
  • Deng L
  • Guo Y
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Abstract

Chiral plasmonic nanostructures can generate large superchiral near fields owing to their intrinsic chirality, leveraging applications for molecule chirality sensing. However, the large structural chirality of chiral nanostructures poses the risk of overshadowing molecular chiral signals, hampering the practical application of chiral nanostructures. Herein, we propose an achiral nanorod that shows no structural chirality and presents strong superchiral near-fields with linearly polarized incidence. The mechanism of the strong superchiral near-field originates from the coupling between the evanescent fields of the localized surface plasmon resonance and incident light. The enhanced near-field optical chirality at the corners of the nanorods reached 25 at a wavelength of 790 nm. Meanwhile, the sign of optical chirality can be tuned by the polarization of the incident light, which provides a convenient way to control the handedness of the light. Furthermore, the enantiomers of D- and L-phenylalanine molecules were experimentally characterized using an achiral platform, which demonstrated a promising nanophotonic platform for chiral biomedical sensing.

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Liu, W., Deng, L., Guo, Y., Yang, W., Xia, S., Yan, W., … Bi, L. (2022). Enhanced chiral sensing in achiral nanostructures with linearly polarized light. Optics Express, 30(15), 26306. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.463918

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