Recent development of tunable optical devices based on liquid

Q Wu, H Zhang, D Jia, T Liu - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Liquid opens up a new stage of device tunability and gradually replaced solid-state devices
and mechanical tuning. It optimizes the control method and improves the dynamic range of …

Polarization-independent liquid-crystal phase modulator with multi-microdomain orthogonally twisted photoalignment

M Tang, K Huang, Y Zhang, J Lu - Light: Advanced Manufacturing, 2024 - light-am.com
Polarization-independent liquid-crystal (LC) phase modulators can significantly improve the
efficiency and reduce the complexity of optical systems. However, achieving good …

Nematic liquid crystals blended ferroelectric nanoparticles (BaTiO3): A perspective way for improving the response time and photoluminescence for electro-optical …

BP Singh, S Sikarwar, R Manohar, A Shah… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We represent a detailed study of a dilute suspension of ferroelectric barium titanate
nanoparticles (BaTiO 3 NPs) in a nematic matrix by probing dielectric, electro-optical, and …

LC-based lightfield camera prototype for rapidly creating target images optimized by finely adjusting several key coefficients and a LC-guided refocusing-rendering

M Ye, Z Gao, W Zhu, K Liu, Z Wang, X Zhang - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
A lightfield camera prototype is constructed by directly coupling a liquid-crystal (LC)
microlens array with an arrayed photosensitive sensor for performing a LC-guided …

Binary geometric-phase holograms

NZ Warriner, MJ Escuti - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Diffractive optics elements have exhibited many novel characteristics through various
methods of employing Pancharatnam-Berry, or geometric, phase. One geometric-phase …

Investigation of a polarizer-free liquid crystal phase modulation via nanometer size encapsulation of nematic liquid crystals

SL Lee, CN Mao, YH Lin - Optical Materials Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We have proposed an encapsulated liquid-crystal-polymer (LC-polymer) composite
structure that is manufactured via the method of LC-in-polymer encapsulation. Through this …

High phase retardation polarization-independent liquid crystal devices

Y Zhang, Q Chen, Y Gao, J Lu - Optics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
A polarization-independent single-layer liquid crystal (LC) device is demonstrated for high
optical phase retardation. Using a single LC layer with twist angles of an integer multiple of …