We investigate a new ultrahighly sensitive nonlinear optical response in pure nematic liquid crystals composed of rodlike molecules characterized by conjugated acetylene groups. Under the combined application of low-intensity optical waves and dc electrical fields, a photorefractivelike grating formation has been found in degenerate four-wave mixing experiments. Polarization-dependent pump-probe experiments reveal the underlying orientational effect of a space-charge field. The photorefractive-like origin of the gratings was proved by two beam-coupling experiments in which a refractive-index grating was phase shifted by pi /2 with respect to the interference grating. The huge optical nonlinearity found in such materials makes them promising for future applications in all-optical image processing and adaptive optics.
Nonlocal dynamic gratings and energy transfer by optical two-beam coupling in a nematic liquid crystal owing to highly sensitive photoelectric reorientation / Pagliusi, Pasquale; Macdonald, R.; Busch, S.; Cipparrone, G.; Kreuzer, M.. - In: JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. B, OPTICAL PHYSICS. - ISSN 0740-3224. - 18:11(2001), pp. 1632-1638.
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Titolo: | Nonlocal dynamic gratings and energy transfer by optical two-beam coupling in a nematic liquid crystal owing to highly sensitive photoelectric reorientation |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2001 |
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Citazione: | Nonlocal dynamic gratings and energy transfer by optical two-beam coupling in a nematic liquid crystal owing to highly sensitive photoelectric reorientation / Pagliusi, Pasquale; Macdonald, R.; Busch, S.; Cipparrone, G.; Kreuzer, M.. - In: JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. B, OPTICAL PHYSICS. - ISSN 0740-3224. - 18:11(2001), pp. 1632-1638. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11770/154862 |
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