3 papers
physics.optics2026
Drop-on-demand printed negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystal droplets for adaptive complex beam manipulation and assessment
Jinge Guo, Xuke Qiu, Runchen Zhang +12
Adaptive manipulation of vectorial optical fields are important for optical metrology, imaging, and structured light related applications, yet existing approaches often rely on bul…
physics.optics2025
Inkjet Printed Liquid Crystal Droplet for Complex Beam Manipulation
Mengmeng Li, Chao He, Steve J. Elston +6
The inkjet-fabricated liquid crystal (LC) droplet device not only capitalizes on the intrinsic birefringence properties of liquid crystals but also leverages the hemispherical shap…
physics.optics2025
Complex structured light generation using printed liquid crystal droplets
Xuke Qiu, Runchen Zhang, Yifei Ma +10
Inkjet-printed liquid crystal (LC) droplets exhibit an intricate spatially-varying birefringence due to their complex internal director configuration. While such anisotropy is ofte…