Chiral Surface Waves for Enhanced Circular Dichroism
  We present a novel chiral sensing platform that combines a one-dimensional photonic crystal design with a birefringent surface defect. The platform sustains simultaneous transverse electric and transverse magnetic surface modes, which are exploited to generate chiral surface waves. The present design provides homogeneous and superchiral fields of both handednesses over arbitrarily large areas in a wide spectral range, resulting in the enhancement of the circular dichroism signal by two orders of magnitude, thus paving the road toward the successful combination of surface-enhanced spectroscopies and electromagnetic superchirality. 
Giovanni Pellegrini, Marco Finazzi, Michele Celebrano, Lamberto Du\`o,   and Paolo Biagioni
physics.optics