Electromagnetic Helicity in Twisted Cavity Resonators
Abstract
Through left- or right-handed twisting, we investigate the impact of mirror-asymmetry (chirality) of the conducting boundary conditions of an equilaterial triangular cross-section electromagnetic resonator. We observe the generation of eigenmodes with non-zero electromagnetic helicity as a result of the coupling of near degenerate TE11(p+1) and TM11p modes. This can be interpreted as an emergence of magneto-electric coupling, which in turn produces a measurable shift in resonant mode frequency as a function of twist angle. We show that this coupling mechanism is equivalent to introducing a non-zero chirality material parameter eff or axion field θeff to the medium. Our findings demonstrate the potential for real-time, macroscopic manipulation of electromagnetic helicity.
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