Recent progress in functional dye‐doped liquid crystal devices

W Shen, H Zhang, Z Miao, Z Ye - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As a typical representative of dopants, organic functional dyes have demonstrated their
significant roles in novel smart liquid crystal (LC) devices, and dye‐doped LCs have also …

Angular momentum holography via a minimalist metasurface for optical nested encryption

H Yang, P He, K Ou, Y Hu, Y Jiang, X Ou… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Metasurfaces can perform high-performance multi-functional integration by manipulating the
abundant physical dimensions of light, demonstrating great potential in high-capacity …

Photonic spin Hall effect: Physics, manipulations, and applications

L Sheng, Y Chen, S Yuan, X Liu, Z Zhang… - Progress in Quantum …, 2023 - Elsevier
The photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE), as an exotic analogy to the spin Hall effect in
electronics, is induced by the spin-orbit interaction of light and manifests itself as a spin …

Controlling the symmetry of the photonic spin Hall effect by an optical vortex pair

W Zhen, XL Wang, J Ding, HT Wang - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
A pair of vortices, one of the multiple vortices, exhibits more adjustable parameters and
attractive characteristics compared with a single vortex. By introducing a vortex pair on the …

All-optical image edge detection based on the two-dimensional photonic spin Hall effect in anisotropic metamaterial

J Zhang, S Zhou, X Dai, M Huang, X Yu - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical image processing based on the photonic spin Hall effect (SHE) has been gaining
significant attention as a convenient and an accurate way for image edge detection …

Linear and nonlinear photonic spin Hall effect induced by analog circular birefringence of Bessel-like beams

Y Li, Y Zou, S Liu, P Li, B Wei, J Zhao - Photonics Research, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The spin Hall effect of a light beam is essentially a product of circular birefringence but is
rarely demonstrated. Here, we provide a scheme for initiating off-axis circular birefringence …

UV-patterned polymer dispersed liquid crystals: Impact of UV curing on electro-optical properties of image-embedded smart windows

J Yan, X Fan, Y Liu, K Qu, Y Yu, RZ Li - Applied Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films are emerging as a promising technological
candidate for smart windows, whereby spatial patterning of the films to yield visually …

Computing Liquid‐Crystal Photonics Platform Enabled Wavefront Sensing

S Liu, F Fan, S Chen, S Wen… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Detecting the wavefront of photons in an efficient and accurate way is crucial to retrieve the
information of an optical field. Liquid crystal (LC) possesses strong ability to manipulate the …

Spin-Dependent Phenomena of Meta-optics

Y Kim, X Li, P Tang, G Li, J Rho - ACS Photonics, 2024 - ACS Publications
The rapid advancement of metasurfaces has revolutionized the field of photonics, offering
unprecedented control over light manipulation at the nanoscale. Among various …

On-Chip Meta-Optics for Engineering Arbitrary Trajectories with Longitudinal Polarization Variation

Y Shi, S Wan, C Dai, Z Wang, Z Li, Z Li - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
On-chip integrated meta-optics promise to achieve high-performance and compact
integrated photonic devices. To arbitrarily engineer the optical trajectory along the …