Dynamic 3D metasurface holography via cascaded polymer dispersed liquid crystal

Shuo Sun; Jin Li; Xiaoxun Li; Xianyu Zhao; Kun Li; Liang Chen

doi:10.1038/s41378-024-00855-6

Dynamic 3D metasurface holography via cascaded polymer dispersed liquid crystal

Microsyst Nanoeng. 2024 Dec 24;10(1):203. doi: 10.1038/s41378-024-00855-6.

Authors

Shuo Sun^{1

2

3

4}, Jin Li^{5

6

7}, Xiaoxun Li⁸, Xianyu Zhao⁹, Kun Li¹⁰, Liang Chen¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Optical and Electronic Technology, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, 310018, China.
² School of Instrumentation and Optoelectronic Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.
³ Science and Technology Center for Quantum Biology, National Institute of Extremely-Weak Magnetic Field Infrastructure, Hangzhou, 310051, China.
⁴ Beihang Hangzhou Innovation Institute, Hangzhou, 310052, China.
⁵ School of Instrumentation and Optoelectronic Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China. [email protected].
⁶ Science and Technology Center for Quantum Biology, National Institute of Extremely-Weak Magnetic Field Infrastructure, Hangzhou, 310051, China. [email protected].
⁷ Beihang Hangzhou Innovation Institute, Hangzhou, 310052, China. [email protected].
⁸ Science and Technology Center for Quantum Biology, National Institute of Extremely-Weak Magnetic Field Infrastructure, Hangzhou, 310051, China. [email protected].
⁹ Joint International Research Laboratory of Information Display and Visualization, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210000, China.
¹⁰ CamOptics (Suzhou) Ltd., Suzhou, 215000, China. [email protected].

PMID: 39719449
DOI: 10.1038/s41378-024-00855-6

Abstract

Metasurface with natural static structure limits the development of dynamic metasurface holographic display with rapid response and broadband. Currently, liquid crystal (LC) was integrated onto the metasurface to convert the passive metasuface into an active one. But, majority of LC-assisted active metasurfaces often exhibit trade-offs among degree of freedom (DoF, typically less than 2), information capacity, response speed, and crosstalk. Herein, at first time, we experimentally demonstrate a cascaded device with polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) and broadband metasurface, enabling dynamic three-dimensional (3D) holographic display with ultra-high contrast, rapid response and continuous regulation. The PDLC droplets enable modulation of scattering state of incident light by high-speed dynamic control system for electric scanning. Based on self-addressing, rapid response and multi-channel PDLC-metasurface device, the dynamic holographic effect of monochrome holographic images switching and color-changing holographic display with broadband, low-crosstalk and high contrast, has been achieved. Our approach offers a novel perspective on dynamic metasurface.