Review of metasurfaces and metadevices: advantages of different materials and fabrications

WL Hsu, YC Chen, SP Yeh, QC Zeng, YW Huang… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Flat optics, metasurfaces, metalenses, and related materials promise novel on-demand light
modulation within ultrathin layers at wavelength scale, enabling a plethora of next …

Design, fabrication, and applications of liquid crystal microlenses

K Chen, Y Hou, S Chen, D Yuan, H Ye… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Microlenses and microlens arrays are one of the indispensable components in modern
optical systems ranging from imaging and beam sha** to polarization control and …

Tilted chiral liquid crystal gratings for efficient large‐angle diffraction

I Nys, M Stebryte, YY Ussembayev… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Deflecting light with high efficiency over large angles with thin optical elements is
challenging but offers tremendous potential for applications, such as wearable displays and …

Converging microlens array using nematic liquid crystals doped with chiral nanoparticles

K Perera, A Nemati, EK Mann… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nematic liquid crystals of achiral molecules or racemic mixtures of chiral ones form flat films
when suspended in submillimeter size grids and submerged under water. Recently, it has …

Foveated display system based on a doublet geometric phase lens

C Yoo, J **ong, S Moon, D Yoo, CK Lee, ST Wu… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We propose a new concept of a foveated display with a single display module. A multi-
resolution and wide field of view (FOV) can be simultaneously achieved using only a single …

Dual diffraction bands of heliconical liquid crystal gratings

S Liu, H Yu, M Jiang, LL Ma, YQ Lu, QH Wei - Physical Review Materials, 2024 - APS
Gratings composed of cholesteric liquid crystals as an important optical element for
emerging applications such as augmented and virtual reality and are renowned for their …

Real-time correction of chromatic aberration in optical fluorescence microscopy

AC López, P Conesa, AMO Blanco… - … and Applications in …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Multi-color fluorescence imaging is a powerful tool for studying the spatial relationships and
interactions among sub-cellular structures in biological specimens. However, if improperly …

Ultracompact optical microscopes made of liquid crystal Pancharatnam–Berry optical elements

H Chen, H Yun, M Jiang, QH Wei - Journal of the Optical Society of …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Ultracompact optical systems are increasingly sought after for applications such as
consumer electronics and medical imaging. Here, we present a design and manufacturing …

Generation of nondiffracting vector beams with ring-shaped plasmonic metasurfaces

Y Zhang, X Yang, J Gao - Physical Review Applied, 2019 - APS
Nondiffracting Bessel, Mathieu, and Weber vector beams are generated by using ring-
shaped plasmonic geometric metasurfaces. The nondiffracting vector beam is produced by …

Geometric-phase intraocular lenses with multifocality

S Lee, G Park, S Kim, Y Ryu, JW Yoon… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
We demonstrate a new type of multifocal and extended depth of focus (EDOF) intraocular
lenses (IOLs) embedding μm-thin geometric phase (GP) lens layers. As an emerging …