The origin of the homochirality of biological molecules (the fact that living systems use almost exclusively left-handed amino acids and right-handed sugars) has been a puzzle since the last century. The discovery of an excess of left-handed amino acids in the Murchison and Murray meteorites suggests that homochirality re ects a bias that existed in primordial solar-system material before the o...

Wherever the polarization properties of a light beam are of concern, polarizers and polarizing beamsplitters (PBS) are indispensable devices in linear-, nonlinear- and quantum-optical schemes. By the very nature of their operation principle, transformation of incoming unpolarized or partially polarized beams through these devices introduces large intensity variations in the fully polarized outc...

We establish a general unified formulation which, using the optical theorem of electromagnetic helicity, shows that dichorism is a phenomenon arising in any scattering-or diffraction-process, elastic or not, of chiral electromagnetic fields by objects either chiral or achiral. It is shown how this approach paves the way to overcoming well-known limitations of standard circular dichroism, like i...

Using a classical ensemble method, nonsequential double ionization is predicted to exist with elliptical and circular polarization. Recollision is found to be the underlying mechanism, and it is only possible via elliptical trajectories.

Active control of terahertz (THz) wave polarization state is great significance for sensitive detection, imaging and communication. Here, a tunable THz quarter plate designed by electronically controlling composite metasurface consisting the gold cross antennas monolayer graphene. The graphene acts as quarter-wave when chemical potential 0 eV, which incident converted from linear to circular po...

The inter-band optical absorption in graphene characterized by its fine-structure constant has a universal value of 2.3% independent of the material parameters. However, for several graphenebased photonic applications, enhanced optical absorption in graphene is highly desired. In this work, we quantify the tunability of optical absorption in graphene via the Fermi level in graphene, angle of in...

Recently atomic magnetometers are one of the best tools in biomagnetic measurement such as magnetic field of brain and heart. In this paper, the technology of optically pumped atomic magnetometer based on circularly polarized light absorption pumping is described. We have been investigated a new method for measuring polarization effect in an alkali vapor based on polarized light transmission. I...