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Metamaterials: Strong Rotational Anisotropies Affect Nonlinear Chiral Metamaterials (Adv. Mater. 13/2017)
Author(s) -
Hooper David C.,
Mark Andrew G.,
Kuppe Christian,
Collins Joel T.,
Fischer Peer,
Valev Ventsislav K.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201770089
Subject(s) - metamaterial , materials science , anisotropy , second harmonic generation , context (archaeology) , optics , polarization (electrochemistry) , nonlinear system , nonlinear optics , condensed matter physics , optoelectronics , physics , quantum mechanics , paleontology , laser , chemistry , biology
Masked by rotational anisotropies, the nonlinear chiroptical response of a metamaterial is initially completely inaccessible. Upon rotating the sample, the chiral information emerges, as described in article number 1605110 by Ventsislav K. Valev and co‐workers. The need for a general method to extract the true chiral contributions to the nonlinear optical signal is highlighted, which would be hugely valuable in the present context of increasingly complex chiral meta/nano‐materials. The background image shows a polarization‐anisotropy color map of second harmonic generation intensity as a function of sample angle and quarter wave‐plate angle.