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    • Optics
    • Photonics
    • Physical Chemistry

    Background:

    • All-optical chirality-sorting systems rely on chiral optical forces.
    • Performance is limited by competition with non-chiral forces.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel approach for enhancing enantioselective chiral optical forces.
    • To improve the efficiency of optical enantiomer separation.

    Main Methods:

    • Demonstrated a background-particle electromagnetic matching approach.
    • Used analytical expressions and numerical simulations.
    • Performed dynamic simulations in optical tweezers.

    Main Results:

    • Electromagnetic matching generates dominant chiral optical forces over non-chiral ones.
    • Effective enantiomer separation achieved across various particle sizes and chiral strengths.
    • Broadened applicability of optical enantiomer separation.

    Conclusions:

    • The electromagnetic-matching approach offers a viable alternative to light-field-tailoring methods.
    • This technique enhances optical enantiomer separation efficiency.
    • Applicable even with a near-matching background medium.