• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 18, Issue 8, 080007 (2020)
Haodong Jiang1、2, Wenfeng Cai1, Ke Li1、3, Ming Cheng1, Vineet Kumar1, Zhen Yin1, Davy Gérard3, Dan Luo1, Quanquan Mu4, and Yanjun Liu1、4、5、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
  • 2Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
  • 3Light, Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies (L2n), Université de Technologie de Troyes & CNRS ERL 7004, Troyes 10004, France
  • 4State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China
  • 5Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies (Southern University of Science and Technology), Ministry of Education, Shenzhen 518055, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202018.080007 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Haodong Jiang, Wenfeng Cai, Ke Li, Ming Cheng, Vineet Kumar, Zhen Yin, Davy Gérard, Dan Luo, Quanquan Mu, Yanjun Liu. Holographically fabricated, highly reflective nanoporous polymeric distributed Bragg reflectors with red, green, and blue colors [Invited][J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2020, 18(8): 080007 Copy Citation Text show less
    (a) Experimental setup for fabricating DBR films. (b) Schematic optical interference inside the LC cell via the single-prism configuration.
    Fig. 1. (a) Experimental setup for fabricating DBR films. (b) Schematic optical interference inside the LC cell via the single-prism configuration.
    Simulated interference patterns with three different incident angles of (a) 7°, (b) 14°, and (c) 21°, respectively.
    Fig. 2. Simulated interference patterns with three different incident angles of (a) 7°, (b) 14°, and (c) 21°, respectively.
    Transparency-tested photos for a blue film (a1), (a2) before and (b1), (b2) after the cell opening, which were taken from the (a1), (b1) black and (a2), (b2) white backgrounds, respectively. Measured transmission and reflection spectra for blue, green, and red films (a3) before and (b3) after the cell opening, respectively.
    Fig. 3. Transparency-tested photos for a blue film (a1), (a2) before and (b1), (b2) after the cell opening, which were taken from the (a1), (b1) black and (a2), (b2) white backgrounds, respectively. Measured transmission and reflection spectra for blue, green, and red films (a3) before and (b3) after the cell opening, respectively.
    (a1), (b1), (c1) Camera photos, (a2), (b2), (c2) optical microscopic images, and (a3), (b3), (c3) SEM images of the (a1)–(a3) blue, (b1)–(b3) green, and (c1)–(c3) red films, respectively.
    Fig. 4. (a1), (b1), (c1) Camera photos, (a2), (b2), (c2) optical microscopic images, and (a3), (b3), (c3) SEM images of the (a1)–(a3) blue, (b1)–(b3) green, and (c1)–(c3) red films, respectively.
    Measured and simulated reflection spectra for the blue, green, and red films, respectively.
    Fig. 5. Measured and simulated reflection spectra for the blue, green, and red films, respectively.
    Measured spectral changes of the reflection for the (a) blue, (b) green, and (c) red films that infiltrated with methanol, ethanol, n-propanol, and n-butanol, respectively. (d) Summarized peak and intensity change as the function of the refractive index.
    Fig. 6. Measured spectral changes of the reflection for the (a) blue, (b) green, and (c) red films that infiltrated with methanol, ethanol, n-propanol, and n-butanol, respectively. (d) Summarized peak and intensity change as the function of the refractive index.
    SampleTotal Period (nm)Polymer Layer Thickness (nm)Air Layer Thickness (nm)
    Blue350204146
    Green458237221
    Red663319344
    Table 1. The Estimated Thickness of the Polymer-Rich and Nanopore-Rich Layers for the Blue, Green, and Red Films
    Haodong Jiang, Wenfeng Cai, Ke Li, Ming Cheng, Vineet Kumar, Zhen Yin, Davy Gérard, Dan Luo, Quanquan Mu, Yanjun Liu. Holographically fabricated, highly reflective nanoporous polymeric distributed Bragg reflectors with red, green, and blue colors [Invited][J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2020, 18(8): 080007
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