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Cholesteric liquid crystal-enabled electrically programmable metasurfaces for simultaneous near- and far-field
Jiawei Wang1, Wenfeng Cai1, Huilin He1
1Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China. yjliu@sustech.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Metasurfaces can enable polarization multiplexing of light so as to carry more information. Specific polarized light necessitates bulk polarizers and waveplates, which significantly increases the form size of metasurface devices. We propose an electrically programmable metasurface enabled by dual-frequency cholesteric liquid crystals (DF-CLCs) for simultaneous near- and far-field displays. Moreover, the integrated device can be electrically programmed to demonstrate 6 different optical images by engineering the DF-CLCs with frequency-modulated voltage pulses. Such programmable metasurfaces are potentially useful for many applications including information storage, displays, anti-counterfeiting, and so on.
