Publications by authors named "Jin-Tao Pan"
Article Synopsis
- The text discusses the importance of manipulating light's properties for photonics, particularly using nonlinear wavefront shaping to create beams with diverse characteristics.
- It introduces a novel concept of nonlinear geometric phase in ferroelectric nematic fluids, which enables unique optical effects like second-harmonic optical vortices with spin-locking.
- Additionally, the study highlights the ability to dynamically adjust these light properties through temperature, electric fields, and mechanical forces, suggesting new possibilities for applications in areas like quantum computing and optical communications.
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics.
Light Sci Appl
September 2022
Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional orders, and diverse optic and photonic applications. If one could know how to design, fabricate, and manipulate these optical microstructures in soft matter systems, such as liquid crystals (LCs), that would open new opportunities in both scientific research and practical applications, such as the interaction between light and soft matter, the intrinsic assembly of the topological patterns, and the multidimensional control of the light (polarization, phase, spatial distribution, propagation direction). Here, we summarize recent progresses in self-assembled optical architectures in typical thermotropic LCs and bio-based lyotropic LCs.
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