27 July 2024 Resilience of circular-polarization-state-sensitive reflection against morphological disorder in chiral structures
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Abstract

Morphological disorder is commonplace in bioworld structures, as exemplified by the layered helical structures in the exocuticle in many beetle species. Circular-polarization-state selective reflection from disordered chiral structures was theoretically explored, the disorder being that each helical turn may be different from its adjacent helical turns. The boundary-value problem of plane-wave reflection by a disordered chiral structure was solved. Numerical results indicate the remarkable resilience of circular-polarization-state-selective reflection against morphological disorder.

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Akhlesh Lakhtakia "Resilience of circular-polarization-state-sensitive reflection against morphological disorder in chiral structures," Journal of Nanophotonics 18(3), 036005 (27 July 2024). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.18.036005
Received: 18 April 2024; Accepted: 3 July 2024; Published: 27 July 2024
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KEYWORDS
Reflection

Diseases and disorders

Plane waves

Dichroic materials

Geometrical optics

Thin films

Lawrencium

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