Abstract
Linear optical activity gives rise to circular dichroism which is based on unequal amounts of absorption experienced by left- and right-hand circularly polarised beams of light as they pass through a sample of a chiral medium. The effect can be described as a difference in molar extinction coefficients for left- and right-hand circularly polarized light: Δε/ε = (εl − εr)/2(εl + εr).
© 1994 Optical Society of America
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