Observation of Optical Bistability in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

• Authors: B. Pura , I. Gronowska , J. Petykiewicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the paper, some experimental and theoretical results concerning optical bistability in cholesteric liquid crystals are presented. A strong primary laser beam interacted nonlinearly with the material and influenced a second (probe) beam in such a way that its transmitted part exhibited a bistable dependence on the intensity of the first beam. It was observed that such a character may be attributed to the intensity of the outgoing probe wave. The obtained results reflect the symmetry of the sample and are interpreted as second order nonlinearity effects.

Keywords

EN

42.65.Pc; 42.70.-a

Discipline

• 42.70.-a: Optical materials(see also 81.05.-t Specific materials: fabrication, treatment, testing and analysis)
• 42.65.Pc: Optical bistability, multistability, and switching, including local field effects(see also 42.60.Gd Q-switching; 42.79.Ta Optical computers, logic elements, interconnects, switches; neural networks)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 1997
• Volume: 92
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 527-533

Dates

published

1997-09

received

1997-01-21

(unknown)

1997-05-15

Contributors

author

B. Pura

• Institute of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warszawa, Poland

author

I. Gronowska

• Institute of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warszawa, Poland

author

J. Petykiewicz

• Institute of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.92.527