文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Multiple degrees-of-freedom programmable soft-matter-photonics: Configuration, manipulation, and advanced applications

作者：Zhang, Yuxian[1];Zheng, Zhi-Gang[1];Li, Quan[2,3,4]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Phys, Shanghai, Peoples R China;[2]Southeast Univ, Inst Adv Mat, Nanjing, Peoples R China;[3]Southeast Univ, Sch Chem & Chem Engn, Nanjing, Peoples R China;[4]Kent State Univ, Mat Sci Grad Program, Kent, OH 44242 USA

年份：2024

卷号：2

期号：1

外文期刊名：RESPONSIVE MATERIALS

收录：WOS:【ESCI(收录号:WOS:001498822500001)】；

基金：The authors acknowledge the financial support from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFA1203700), National Natural Science Foundation of China (62275081, 62035008, 62005008, 61822504), Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (2021-01-07-00-02-E00107), "Shuguang Program" of Shanghai Education Development Foundation and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (21SG29), and Jiangsu Innovation Team Program. The authors are thankful to Dr. Xiao-Qian Wang in East China University of Science and Technology for valuable discussions.

语种：英文

外文关键词：degree-of-freedom; liquid crystal; optical manipulation; planar optics; soft matter

摘要：For centuries, humans have never stopped exploring the nature of light and manipulating it, since light carries multiple information through its intrinsic wave-particle dualism, including wavelength, amplitude, phase, polarization, spin/orbital angular momentum, etc., which determines the physical language and basic manners we perceive the objective world. Conventional optical devices, such as lenses, prisms, and lasers, are composed of solid elements that are bulky, making it difficult to manipulate light dynamically with multiple degrees-of-freedom. Comparatively, some responsive soft matters, especially represented by liquid crystals (LCs), possess distinctive orientational order and spontaneous self-assembled superstructures, enabling the digital programming of microstructures and multiple degrees-of-freedom manipulation of their optical characteristics. The optical manipulation based on these soft superstructures, that is, the "soft-matter-photonics", is playing an impressive role in integrated functional devices, especially in the present age of information explosion. Herein, we review the latest advances, respectively, in the microstructure configurations, multiple degrees-of-freedom manipulations, and the relevant prospective applications. Additionally, scientific issues and technical challenges that hinder the programing operation and optical manipulations are discussed. Toward a four-dimensional optical manipulation of soft condensed matter, this review may have wide implications on a variety of applications, including the integrated fabrication of compact elements, multi-channel information processing and high-capacity optical communications.