Possible limitations of the classical model of orientational optical nonlinearity in nematics

• Authors: Marek Sierakowski , Małgorzata Teterycz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Orientational nonlinearity is the major mechanism of nonlinear optical phenomena observed in liquidcrystalline phase while it does not appear to such extent in any other materials. It is caused by distortion of initial molecular arrangement of an anisotropic medium induced by optical field. Deformation of the anisotropic structure means spatial changes of refractive index of the medium. This effect has been studied in earnest since the 1980s as its application became more apparent. In this paper, some results of experimental examination of molecular reorientation in nematics by optical field are presented, which are not explained in frame of existing Oseen-Frank model and Erickson-Leslie continuous theory. Possible reasons of this discordance are considered and a way of explanation is suggested.

Keywords

EN

optical nonlinearity; liquid crystals

Discipline

• 42.65.Jx: Beam trapping, self-focusing and defocusing; self-phase modulation
• 42.70.Df: Liquid crystals(for structure of liquid crystals, see 61.30.-v)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 575-581

Dates

published

1 - 9 - 2008

online

17 - 7 - 2008

Contributors

author

Marek Sierakowski

• Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

author

Małgorzata Teterycz

• Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-008-0079-0