Enhancing chiroptical responses in the nanoparticle system by manipulating the far-field and near-field couplings

Abstract

Employing nanostructure to generate large chiroptical response has been cultivated as an emerging field, for its great potentials in integrated optics, biochemistry detections, etc. However, the lack of intuitive approaches for analytically describing the chiroptical nanoparticles has discouraged researchers from effectively designing advanced chiroptical structures. In this work, we take the twisted nanorod dimer system as a basic example to provide an analytical approach from the perspective of mode coupling, including far-field coupling and near-field coupling of nanoparticles. Using this approach, we can calculate the expression of circular dichroism (CD) in the twisted nanorod dimer system, which can establish the analytical relationship between the chiroptical response and the basic parameters of this system. Our results show that the CD response can be engineered by modulating the structure parameters, and a high CD response of ∼ 0.78 under the guidance of this approach has been achieved.