Optofluidic modulator based on peristaltic nematogen microflows

Nature Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 234-238

  Cuennet, J G ^a   Vasdekis, A E ^a   De Sio, L ^b   Psaltis, D ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953658732     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.18     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Gibbons, W. M., Shannon, P. J., Sun, S. T. & Swetlin, B. J. Surface mediated alignment of nematic liquid-crystals with polarized laser-light. Nature 351, 49-50 (1991). (Pubitemid 21896529)
2. Schadt, M., Seiberle, H. & Schuster, A. Optical patterning of multidomain liquidcrystal displays with wide viewing angles. Nature 381, 212-215 (1996). (Pubitemid 126557439)
3. Vettese, D. Liquid crystal on silicon. Nature Photon. 4, 752-754 (2010).
4. De Gennes, P. G. & Prost, J. The Physics of Liquid Crystals 198 (Oxford Science Publications, 1993).
5. Jewell, S. A., Cornford, S. L., Yang, F., Cann, P. S. & Sambles, J. R. Flow-driven transition and associated velocity profiles in a nematic liquid-crystal cell. Phys. Rev. E 80, 041706 (2009).
6. Waton, G., Ferre, A., Candau, S., Perbet, J. N. & Hareng, M. Characterization of distortions induced by a flow or an electric field in nemactics using conoscopic measurements Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 78, 237-249 (1981). (Pubitemid 12474249)
7. Psaltis, D., Quake, S. R. & Yang, C. H. Developing optofluidic technology through the fusion of microfluidics and optics. Nature 442, 381-386 (2006). (Pubitemid 44264781)
8. Monat, C., Domachuk, P. & Eggleton, B. J. Integrated optofluidics: a new river of light. Nature Photon. 1, 106-114 (2007).
9. Unger, M. A., Chou, H. P., Thorsen, T., Scherer, A. & Quake, S. R. Monolithic microfabricated valves and pumps by multilayer soft lithography. Science 288, 113-116 (2000). (Pubitemid 30203039)
10. Cui, X. Q. et al. Lensless high-resolution on-chip optofluidic microscopes for Caenorhabditis elegans and cell imaging. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 105, 10670-10675 (2008).
11. Yang, A. H. J. et al. Optical manipulation of nanoparticles and biomolecules in sub-wavelength slot waveguides. Nature 457, 71-75 (2009).
12. Song, W. Z., Vasdekis, A. E., Li, Z. Y. & Psaltis, D. Optofluidic evanescent dye laser based on a distributed feedback circular grating. Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 161110 (2009).
13. Haakestad, M. W. et al. Electrically tunable photonic bandgap guidance in a liquid-crystal-filled photonic crystal fiber. IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett. 17, 819-821 (2005). (Pubitemid 40555838)
14. Reinitzer, F. Beitrage zur Kenntniss des Cholesterins. Monatsh. Chemie 9, 421-425 (1888).
15. Khoo, I. C. Liquid Crystals: Physical Properties and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena (Wiley, 1995).
16. Ikeda, T. & Tsutsumi, O. Optical switching and image storage by means of azobenzene liquid crystal films Science 268, 1873-1875 (1995).
17. Humar, M., Ravnik, M., Pajk, S. & Musevic, I. Electrically tunable liquid crystal optical microresonators. Nature Photon. 3, 595-600 (2009).
18. Kurokawa, T. & Fukushima, S. Spatial light modulators using ferroelectric liquid-crystal. Opt. Quant. Electron. 24, 1151-1163 (1992).
19. Khoo, I. C., Park, J. H. & Liou, J. D. Theory and experimental studies of all-optical transmission switching in a twist-alignment dye-doped nematic liquid crystal. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25, 1931-1937 (2008).
20. Castles, F., Morris, S. M., Gardiner, D. J., Malik, Q. M. & Coles, H. J. Ultra-fastswitching flexoelectric liquid-crystal display with high contrast. J. Soc. Inf. Display 18, 128-133 (2010).
21. Jewell, S. A. & Sambles, J. R. Dynamic response of a dual-frequency chiral hybrid aligned nematic liquid-crystal cell. Phys. Rev. E 73, 011706 (2006).
22. Blanche, P.-A. et al. Holographic three-dimensional telepresence using largearea photorefractive polymer. Nature 468, 80-83 (2010).
23. Jaffrin, M. Y. & Shappiro, A. H. Peristaltic pumping. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 3, 13-37 (1971).
24. Smits, J. G. Piezoelectric micropump with 3 valves working peristatically. Sensor Actuat. A 21, 203-206 (1990).
25. Pasechnik, S. et al. Oscillating Poiseuille flow in photo-aligned liquid crystal cells. Liq. Cryst. 33, 1153-1165 (2006).
26. Choi, M. C. et al. Ordered patterns of liquid crystal toroidal defects by microchannel confinement. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 101, 17340-17344 (2004).
27. Barbero, G., Madhusudana, N. V., Palierne, J. F. & Durand, G. Optical determination of large distortion surface anchoring torques in a nematic liquid-crystal. Phys. Lett. A 103, 385-388 (1984).
28. McDonald, J. C. et al. Fabrication of microfluidic systems in poly(dimethylsiloxane). Electrophoresis 21, 27-40 (2000). (Pubitemid 30032694)
29. Wunderlich, B. K., Klessinger, U. A. & Bausch, A. R. Diffusive spreading of timedependent pressures in elastic microfluidic devices. Lab Chip 10, 1025-1029 (2010).
30. Boamfa, M. I., Lazarenko, S. V., Vermolen, E. C. M., Kirilyuk, A. & Racing, T. Magnetic field alignment of liquid crystals for fast display applications. Adv. Mater. 17, 610-614 (2005). (Pubitemid 40448718)
31. Shamai, R. & Levy, U. On chip tunable micro ring resonator actuated by electrowetting. Opt. Express 17, 1116-1125 (2009).
32. Hoshino, K. & Shimoyama, I. Analysis of elastic micro optical components under large deformation. J. Micromech. Microeng. 13, 149-154 (2003).
33. Qin, Y., Wang, X. & Wang, Z. L. Microfibre-nanowire hybrid structure for energy scavenging. Nature 451, 809-813 (2009). (Pubitemid 351253172)
34. Woltman, S. J., Jay, G. D. & Crawford, G. P. Liquid-crystal materials find a new order in biomedical applications. Nature Mater. 6, 929-938 (2007). (Pubitemid 350210567)
35. Yu, L., Li, C. M., Zhou, Q. & Luong, J. H. T. Poly(vinyl alcohol) functionalized poly(dimethylsiloxane) solid surface for immunoassay. Bioconj. Chem. 18, 281-287 (2007).
36. Pasechnik, S. V., Chigrinov, V. G., Shmeliova, D. V., Tsvetkov, V. A. & Voronov, A. N. Anisotropic shear viscosity in nematic liquid crystals: new optical measurement method. Liquid Cryst. 31, 585-592 (2004).