supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.62175148。
Polarization-independent liquid-crystal(LC)phase modulators can significantly improve the efficiency and reduce the complexity of optical systems.However,achieving good polarization independence for LC phase modulator...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Nos.2021YFA1202000 and 2022YFA1405000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52003115);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province,Major Project(No.BK20212004);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20200320);the support of Xiaomi Young Scholar program。
Controlling architecture of hierarchical microstructures in liquid crystals(LCs]plays a crucial role in the development of novel soft-matter-based devices.Chiral LC fingerprints are considered as a prospective candida...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.11804277,11634010,61675168,and 11774289);the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2017YFA0303800);the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China(No.2019JQ-616);the Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Pulsed Power Laser Technology(No.SKL2019KF08);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Nos.310201911cx022 and3102019JC008);the Openof National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures(No.M31040);the Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation(No.1908085QF275)。
The generation of an autofocusing circular Airy beam(CAB)is realized via a liquid crystal(LC)geometric phase plate with a simple configuration.The fabrication of the LC plate is based on the photoalignment technology ...
supported by the International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. 181231KYSB20170022)
In order to improve the damage threshold and enlarge the aperture of a laser beam shaper, photolithographic patterning technology is adopted to design a new type of liquid crystal binary mask. The inherent conductive ...
sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.11304151,61490714,61435008 and61575093)
We propose a depolarizer based on the principle of a collection of half-wave plates with randomly distributed optic axes. The design is demonstrated by means of dynamically photopatterning liquid crystal into randomly...
In order to investigate the photoalignment mechanism of nematic liquid crystals on an oxadiazoles, new 1,3,4-oxadiazole having fluorine atoms as terminal, as well as sideways was synthesized. Linearly polarized UV lig...
Project supported by the Science Foundation of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (Grant Nos. CERG612208,CERG RPC07/08.EG01,CERG 612208/614408,CERG 612409,and CERG 612310)
The effect of interaction between liquid crystal (LC) and photoalignment material on the speed of optical rewriting process is investigated. The theoretical analysis shows that a smaller frank elastic constant K22 o...
Discussion is presented on the use of the photoisomerization of azobenzene chromophore in the design andpreparation of novel functional materials. The two systems reviewed are azobenzene polymer-stabilized liquid crys...