Integrated and topological liquid crystal photonics

Creation and dynamics of knotted vortices

(2013) Dustin Kleckner et al.   Nature Physics

Resonant transport of light from planar polymer waveguide into liquid-crystal microcavity

(2013) V. S. R. Jampani et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Particle size effects on nanocolloidal interactions in nematic liquid crystals

(2013) A. V. Ryzhkova et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Assembly and control of 3D nematic dipolar colloidal crystals

(2013) A. Nych et al.   Nature Communications

Solubilization of Thermotropic Liquid Crystal Compounds in Aqueous Surfactant Solutions

(2012) Karthik Peddireddy et al.   LANGMUIR

Optical generation of crystalline, quasicrystalline, and arbitrary arrays of torons in confined cholesteric liquid crystals for patterning of optical vortices in laser beams

(2012) Paul J. Ackerman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Chiral Self-Assembled Solid Microspheres: A Novel Multifunctional Microphotonic Device

(2011) Gabriella Cipparrone et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Surfactant sensing based on whispering-gallery-mode lasing in liquid-crystal microdroplets

(2011) M. Humar et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Paintable band-edge liquid crystal lasers

(2011) Damian J. Gardiner et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Colloidal entanglement in highly twisted chiral nematic colloids: Twisted loops, Hopf links, and trefoil knots

(2011) V. S. R. Jampani et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Reconfigurable Knots and Links in Chiral Nematic Colloids

(2011) U. Tkalec et al.   SCIENCE

Nucleation of colloidal crystals on configurable seed structures

(2011) M. Hermes et al.   Soft Matter

Topological defects of nematic liquid crystals confined in porous networks

(2011) Francesca Serra et al.   Soft Matter

High-speed ultracompact buried heterostructure photonic-crystal laser with 13 fJ of energy consumed per bit transmitted

(2010) Shinji Matsuo et al.   Nature Photonics

Recent progress in lasers on silicon

(2010) Di Liang et al.   Nature Photonics

Isolated optical vortex knots

(2010) Mark R. Dennis et al.   Nature Physics

3D microlasers from self-assembled cholesteric liquid-crystal microdroplets

(2010) M. Humar et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Design of 2D Binary Colloidal Crystals in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

(2009) U. Ognysta et al.   LANGMUIR

Electrically tunable liquid crystal optical microresonators

(2009) M. Humar et al.   Nature Photonics

2D Interactions and Binary Crystals of Dipolar and Quadrupolar Nematic Colloids

(2008) U. Ognysta et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Interactions of micro-rods in a thin layer of a nematic liquid crystal

(2008) Uroš Tkalec et al.   Soft Matter