Reorientational Nonlinear Phenomena in Thin Nematic Liquid Crystals Layer

• Authors: K. Brzdąkiewicz , W. Bajdecki , A. Kozanecka , M. Karpierz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper the detailed study of the self-diffraction phenomena due to reorientational optical nonlinearity in nematic liquid crystalline cell is presented. The optical nonlinear effect is additionally modified by external low-frequency electric field. The dependence of nonlinear response on light polarization is also analyzed. The theoretical investigations are compared with experimental results and the theoretical predictions are in excellent agreement with experimental data.

Keywords

EN

42.65.-k; 42.70.Df

Discipline

• 42.65.-k: Nonlinear optics
• 42.70.Df: Liquid crystals(for structure of liquid crystals, see 61.30.-v)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2001
• Volume: 99
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 183-192

Dates

published

2001-01

received

2001-06-08

Contributors

author

K. Brzdąkiewicz

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

author

W. Bajdecki

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

author

A. Kozanecka

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

author

M. Karpierz

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

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.99.183