[10p-N404-1~14] 4.1 Plasmonics and Nanophotonics

▲ [10p-N404-9] Molecular orientation mapping down to sub-wavelength scale

〇Saulius Juodkazis¹, Meguya Ryu², Yoshiaki Nishijima³, Soon Hock Ng¹, Junko Morikawa⁴ (1.Swinburne Uni., 2.AIST, 3.Yokohama Nat. Uni., 4.Tokyo Inst. Technol.)

Keywords:4-polarisation method, anisotropy, synchrotron

Polarisation of light can be used to measure orientation of absorbing dipoles, birefringent domains, material re-distribution in complex mixtures at very different spectral domains: from visible throughout infra-red (IR) to sub-mm wavelength at THz frequencies. Polarisation analysis at sub-wavelength scale is a challenging task and requires light-field enhancement using tailored sub-wavelength patterns and/or use of high intensity IR-THz beams at synchrotrons. We overview recent results in polarisation spectroscopy including use of metamaterials.