Abstract

In an optically active liquid the diffraction angle depends on the circular polarization state of the incident light beam. We report the observation of circular differential diffraction in an isotropic chiral medium, and we demonstrate that double diffraction is an alternate means to determine the handedness (enantiomeric excess) of a solution.

© 2007 Optical Society of America

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History
Original Manuscript: March 23, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: April 30, 2007
Revised Manuscript: April 30, 2007
Published: June 20, 2007

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Ambarish Ghosh, Furqan M. Fazal, Peer Fischer

Harvard University

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