Magneto-optical phase enantiomeric detector

Summary from only given. We have developed improved techniques for rapidly and sensitively screening potential medicines. These include the Faraday effect using a sinusoidally varying magnetic field, phase-sensitive detection, and optical-heterodyne detection. We call this set of techniques and the resulting device the magneto-optical phase enantiomeric detector (MOPED). Because chiral molecules on average exhibit greater Faraday effect than non-chiral molecules and our two detection methods are extremely sensitive and fast, these techniques provide increased sensitivity and decreased analysis time.