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In Situ Magnetic Ordering and Microfabrication of Liquid Crystal Networks with Discretized Alignment

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Miniaturizing liquid crystal network actuators typically demands costly laser writing or digital light processing. A low‐cost photolithography platform couples rotating photomasks with a Halbach magnetic array to discretize in‐plane molecular alignment down to 50 µm, producing programmable, light‐responsive grippers, checkerboards, and origami‐inspired
Matthew Gene Scarfo, Ramón S. Herrera Restrepo, Irving Hafed Tejedor Garcia, Hamed Shahsavan   +3 more
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Design and Study of Low Loss, High Birefringence Quasi-Symmetric Hollow-Core Anti-Resonant Fiber

Photonics
Low-loss, high-birefringence, bend-resistant hollow-core anti-resonant fibers for infrared wavelengths have important applications in the fields of precision interferometric sensing, laser systems, and optical communications. In this paper, an eight-tube
Binhao Gao, Fang Tan, Dexiao Chen, Shunfa Cui, Zhiyong Hou, Yuze Zhang, Weichun Wang, Yumeng Ban, Dechun Zhou   +8 more
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Optical Detection of Cellular Signals at Material Interfaces

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Emerging functional materials are transforming optical detection of cellular signals. This review highlights optical techniques that exploit the unique optical properties of diverse materials to detect and quantify cellular electrical, chemical, and mechanical signals, and discusses key opportunities and challenges.
Xuchen Ren, Jitong Ren, Zixin Zhang, Koney Eungkon Kim, Francis L. Hong, Yuecheng Peter Zhou   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Twisted Hi-Bi fiber DFB lasers with controllable output polarization [PDF]

, 2012
We demonstrate that single polarization, hi-bi fiber DFB lasers are in general characterized by elliptical state of polarization, due to the in-built fiber birefringence axis rotation.
Richard Wilmshurst, Louise M. B. Walker, Michalis N. Zervas, Wilmshurst, R., Zervas, M.N., Walker, L.M.B.   +5 more
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Azobenzene's Cross‐Scale Optics and Photonics: Molecular Photoswitching, Mesoscopic Material Motions, and Adaptive Devices

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Azobenzene photoswitches translate molecular‐scale E/Z photoisomerization into macroscopic material responses and device‐level photonic functions. This Review highlights how azobenzene research has evolved from molecular photochemistry to photoalignment, mass migration, photomechanics, and heat release, ultimately enabling holography, reconfigurable ...
Heeju Son, Soyul Kwak, Heerin Noh, Minsang Kim, Doyeon Noh, Subhayan Chakraborty, Jaewon Lee, YongDeok Cho, Kyeongsoo Kim, Taewoong Eom, Moonyoung Kim, Jangwon Kim, Hoyoung Lee, Soyoung Lee, Jaehun Kim, Grace G. D. Han, Shin‐Tson Wu, Stefano Oscurato, Arri Priimagi, Marina Saphiannikova, Seungwoo Lee   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Laser Polarization on Fiber Bragg Grating Fabry-Perot Interferometer for Ultrasound Detection

IEEE Photonics Journal, 2020
High-finesse fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) Fabry-Perot interferometers (FPIs) have shown great promise as sensitive ultrasonic sensors. However, the fabrication process of the sensors usually introduces birefringence to the fiber, which makes the sensor ...
Yupeng Zhu, Qiwen Sheng, Ming Han
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Clustomesogen Showing Sub‐Zero Liquid Crystal Properties: Supramolecular Assembly Between Cs2[Mo6Ii8(OCOC2F5)6] and Hexaethylenoxide Containing Mesogenic Dimers

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Associating a red‐NIR phosphorescent octahedral hexanuclear molybdenum cluster compound with hexaethyleneoxide chains bearing mesogenic units on both ends leads to an emissive hybrid liquid crystal showing mesomorphism on a very unusual temperature range down to −25°C.
Killiann Heinz, Jeanne Rebours, Zoulikha Zerrouqi, Noée Dumait, Maria Amela‐Cortes, Nikolai Scheuring, Sara Simonovska, Sebastian Marino, Max Ebert, Stéphane Cordier, Sabine Laschat, Yann Molard   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid structure hollow-core anti-resonant fiber with low confinement loss at 1550 nm and high birefringence in the C-band

Results in Physics
This study proposes a hollow-core anti-resonant fiber with a hybrid nested cladding structure, aimed at achieving high birefringence, broad bandwidth, and low confinement loss. The proposed fiber has a three-layer nested ring structure in the x-direction
Yuan Yang, Hongxiang Xu, Xuhang Li, Zhiyong Ren, Zhiyun Hou, Jiantao Liu, Changmin Xia, Guiyao Zhou   +7 more
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Modified Octagonal Photonic Crystal Fiber for Residual Dispersion Compensation over Telecommunication Bands [PDF]

Radioengineering, 2018
A modified Octagonal Photonic Crystal Fiber (MO-PCF) is proposed and numerically investigated for the purpose of residual dispersion compensation in the optical transmission link.
R. Ahmad, M. Komanec, D. Suslov, S. Zvanovec   +3 more
doaj  

Electrically Tunable Heliconical Smectic Superstructure in Polar Fluids

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Strong dipole–dipole interactions give rise to an emergent polar smectic phase with spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking. This resulting polar heliconical smectic superstructure enables novel functionalities in polar fluids, such as color modulation driven by electric field strength and frequency, as well as second‐harmonic generation amplification ...
Hiroya Nishikawa, Dennis Kwaria, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Koki Sano, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Fumito Araoka   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source