Ferroelectric Nematic Fluid

Reconfigurable Light Fields

A ferroelectric nematic fluid with nonlinear geometric phase encoding that enables dynamic control of second-harmonic structured light.

Pan, Jintao · Bohan, Zhu · Ma, Lingling · Chen, Wei · Guang-Yang, Zhang · Tang, Jie · Yuan, Liu · Yang, Wei · Zhang, Chao · Zhu, Zhihan · Zhu, Wenguo · Li, Guixin · Lu, Yanqing · Clark, Noel A.

Nature Communications 2024

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Generates second-harmonic optical vortices with spin-locked topological charges

Dynamic tunability via temperature, electric field, and twisted elastic force