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General Models for Optical Activity

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Optical Activity and Chiral Discrimination

Part of the book series: NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series ((ASIC,volume 48))

Abstract

Physical interpretations of optical activity ultimately derive from the general helix model introduced by Fresnel (1824) to account for optical rotation in terms of the then newly-developed transverse vibration theory of light. The discovery of the left-circular and right-circular polarization modes of radiation by Fresnel, through the introduction of the quarter-wave plate, the Fresnel rhomb, and the triprism composed of (+)- and (-)-quartz elements, enabled him to ascribe optical rotation to a circular birefringence of the active medium. Plane-polarized radiation, regarded as the resultant of superposed left and right circularly polarized components with equal amplitudes, undergoes a rotation if one component is retarded relative to the other on propagation through a transparent medium. The angle of rotation in radians, (ϕ, at the wavelength, λ, for a unit path-length is given by the Fresnel equation,

$$ [\phi = ({n_L} - {n_R})\pi /\lambda $$
((1))

where nL and nR are the refractive index of the medium for left and right circularly polarized light, respectively [1].

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Mason, S.F. (1979). General Models for Optical Activity. In: Mason, S.F. (eds) Optical Activity and Chiral Discrimination. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 48. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7644-4_1

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