Optical Chirality

The chiral response of optical scatterers may be computed in JCMsuite using the formalism of the optical chirality and the built-in Chiral Quantities. It has been shown that the time-harmonic optical chirality density obeys a local continuity equation [1]. This enables the analysis of chiral behaviour analogous to the study of electromagnetic energy.

This tutorial contains examples of optical chirality computations:

• a Quarter-Wave Plate

• an Isolated Scatterer

Bibliography

[1]

Philipp Gutsche, Lisa V. Poulikakos, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger, and Frank Schmidt. Time-harmonic optical chirality in inhomogeneous space. In SPIE OPTO, Vol.9756m pages 97560X. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2016.