6 papers
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…
Full vectorial field sensing using liquid crystal droplet arrays
Xuke Qiu, Jinge Guo, Jiahe Cui +8
Determining the amplitude, phase, and polarization profile of light is essential for both fundamental scientific discovery and applications spanning optical metrology, microscopy,…
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…
A reconfigurable arbitrary retarder array as complex structured matter
Chao He, Binguo Chen, Zipei Song +31
Tuneable retarder arrays, such as spatially patterned liquid crystal devices, have given rise to impressive photonic functionality, fuelling diverse applications ranging from micro…
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…
Physically Plausible Vectorial Metrics for Polarization Information Analysis
Runchen Zhang, Xuke Qiu, Yifei Ma +7
The Mueller Matrix Polar Decomposition method decomposes a Mueller matrix into a diattenuator, a retarder, and a depolarizer. Among these elements, the retarder, which plays a key…