Numerical investigation of far-field circular dichroism and local chiral response of pseudo-chiral meta-surface with FEM

Abstract

Circular dichroism spectroscopy is a sensitive and widely applied technique to detect chiral molecules. Recent studies have shown high prospects for plasmonic metasurfaces of pseudo-chiral nano-resonators in enhancing chiral sensitivity. Here we study the far-field circular dichroism for gold U-shaped metasurfaces by calculating Mueller matrix elements with the Finite element method and investigate its response in light of the near field electric energy and optical chiral density.