基于光取向技术的液晶螺旋达曼波带片

涡旋光阵列在光通信、多微粒操控、并行激光加工等领域有着广阔的应用前景,近年来受到越来越多的关注。然而动态可调的纵向涡旋光阵列的实现仍具有一定挑战性。本文基于达曼编码方法与液晶光取向技术,设计并制备出一种液晶螺旋达曼波带片。实验结果表明,该器件可以高效地产生拓扑荷数逐级变化的1×5纵向涡旋光阵列,并可以通过改变外加电压来动态切换器件的开关态。此外,该器件通过水平/竖直翻转一次或是改变入射光模式,还可以对产生的纵向涡旋光阵列的拓扑荷数进行反转变换或加减运算。液晶螺旋达曼波带片兼具低成本、高效率、电光可调等优势,有望促进液晶光电元件在多维光场调控等领域的应用。

Optical properties of stacked liquid crystal superstructures with opposite chirality [Invited]

Cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) has been widely used in flat optical elements due to the Pancharatnam–Berry(PB) phase modulation. In order to achieve PB phase modulation for both circular polarizations, it is natural to come up with stacking CLCs with opposite chirality. Here, various optical properties of diverse CLC stacking structures are systematically investigated by numerical calculations. With the thickness of the CLC sublayers becoming smaller, the reflection bandgap splits into three main parts, and the rotatory dispersion gradually becomes negligible. Vector beams provide a more intuitive verification. These results provide theoretical guidance for future studies on stacked chiral anisotropic media.