Does circular polarized light with same screw like that of the chiral material always reflected or only under specific condition? What is the Jones matrix describing propagation through chiral material?
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U. Dreher
Aside from an eventual difference in reflection due to the difference of the refractive indexes, there is NO reflective property inherent to chiral materials. Sorry about the Jones matrix: no idea.
My best guess: you haven't yet gotten what the meaning of 'chirality' is. And - unfortunately - there are several types of chirality - even when concentrating on 'optical acitivity'. But none of these has a significant impact on 'reflection'.
'chirality' in terms of 'light' could be:
- Circular dichroism: in short a difference in light absorption depending on the orientation of circular polarized light. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_dichroism
- 'optical activity': this is the property that's normally thought of when talking about 'chirality': basically, chiral materials showing this property exhibit different propagation speeds (resulting in different refractive indexes) for left- resp. right-hand circular polarized light. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_rotation
- And the very basic page about chirality:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality
Regarding your questions:
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