Pancharatnam–Berry phase reversal via opposite-chirality-coexisted superstructures

L Zhu, CT Xu, P Chen, YH Zhang, SJ Liu… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Recently discovered reflective Pancharatnam–Berry phase (PB phase) from chiral
anisotropic media (eg, cholesteric liquid crystal, CLC) has aroused great interest in the …

Multiscale optical field manipulation via planar digital optics

X Luo - ACS Photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Replacing curved and bulky optical elements with thin and lightweight counterparts is a
persistent pursuit of the optical society. Metasurfaces, as two-dimensional artificial …

Electrically Tunable Microlens Array Enabled by Polymer‐Stabilized Smectic Hierarchical Architectures

JB Wu, SB Wu, HM Cao, QM Chen… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystals (LCs) are key functional materials that are broadly adopted in various fields
due to their stimuli‐responsiveness. Recently, LCs with hierarchical architectures have …

Shortening focal length of 100‐mm aperture flat lens based on improved sagnac interferometer and bifacial liquid crystal

Y Wen, Q Zhang, Q He, F Zhang… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional lens technologies face great challenges in applications requiring large
apertures and small f‐numbers, while a liquid crystal (LC) lens based on geometric phase is …

On-chip integration of metasurface-doublet for optical phased array with enhanced beam steering

Z Wang, J Ji, X Ye, Y Chen, X Li, W Song, B Fang… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Optical phased array (OPA), as a promising beam steering technology, however, usually
suffers from a narrow field of view (FOV) that limits its performances in applications. A …

[HTML][HTML] A review on tunable liquid prism: Methods, applications and challenges

M Zhang, J Lv, Z Gan, Z Hu, H Hong - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2025 - Elsevier
Tunable liquid prism is important member of liquid optical devices, and its advantage over
solid material prism lies in the non-mechanical tunability. Therefore, it is of great value for …

High-resolution non-line-of-sight imaging based on liquid crystal planar optical elements

Z Zhao, Q Zhang, X Li, Y Guo, M Pu, F Zhang… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Abstract Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging aims at recovering hidden objects located
beyond the traditional line of sight, with potential applications in areas such as security …

Fast-response liquid crystals for 6G optical communications

J Zou, Z Yang, C Mao, ST Wu - Crystals, 2021 - mdpi.com
We report two high birefringence and low viscosity nematic mixtures for phase-only liquid-
crystal-on-silicon spatial light modulators. The measured response time (on+ off) of a test …

Flat telescope based on an all-dielectric metasurface doublet enabling polarization-controllable enhanced beam steering

H Li, C Zhou, WB Lee, DY Choi, SS Lee - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
A flat telescope (FTS), which incorporates an all-dielectric metasurface doublet (MD) based
on hydrogenated amorphous silicon nanoposts, is proposed and demonstrated to achieve …

200 mm optical synthetic aperture imaging over 120 meters distance via macroscopic Fourier ptychography

Q Zhang, Y Lu, Y Guo, Y Shang, M Pu, Y Fan… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Fourier ptychography (FP) imaging, drawing on the idea of synthetic aperture, has been
demonstrated as a potential approach for remote sub-diffraction-limited imaging …