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Enhancement of circular differential deflection of light in an optically active medium
Rajitha Papukutty Rajan1, Ambarish Ghosh
1Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Abstract:
In this letter, we investigate the circular differential deflection of a light beam refracted at the interface of an optically active medium. We show that the difference between the angles of deviation of the two circularly polarized components of the transmitted beam is enhanced manyfold near total internal reflection, which suggests a simple way of increasing the limit of detection of chiro-optical measurements.
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