Schematic illustration of common CLC superstructures and opposite-chirality-coexisted superstructures. (IMAGE)

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS

Schematic illustration of common CLC superstructures and opposite-chirality-coexisted superstructures.

Caption

a With the incident light of linear polarization (LP), for right-handed CLC, right circular polarization (RCP) component is reflected and added by a reflective PB phase of +2α, while left circular polarization (LCP) component is transmitted. α represents the orientation angle of surface LC director. p stands for the helical pitch of the CLC. b For left-handed CLC, LCP component is reflected and added by a reflective PB phase of -2α, while the RCP component is transmitted. c For opposite-chirality-coexisted superstructures, both the RCP and the LCP component are reflected and added by the conjugated PB phase.

Credit

by Lin Zhu,Chun-Ting Xu,Peng Chen,Yi-Heng Zhang, Si-Jia Liu, Quan-Ming Chen, Shi-Jun Ge, Wei Hu, and Yan-Qing Lu

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