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Observation of the photorefractive effects in bent-core liquid crystals

Author(s) -

Ying Xiang,

Yikun Liu,

Zhiyong Zhang,

Hong-Jun You,

Xia Tian,

Everett Wang,

Zhengdong Cheng

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

optics express

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394

H-Index - 271

ISSN - 1094-4087

DOI - 10.1364/oe.21.003434

Subject(s) - photorefractive effect , liquid crystal , materials science , optics , bent molecular geometry , polarization (electrochemistry) , doping , core (optical fiber) , diffraction efficiency , refractive index , optoelectronics , grating , chemistry , physics , composite material

We present a new observation of photorefractive (PR) effects in bent-core nematic (BCN) liquid crystal (LC) materials, where two kinds of optical-induced gratings are demonstrated and compared in pure and surface-doped BCN systems. The experimental results showed that these two kinds of gratings exhibit distinctive different polarization-dependent and angular-dependent behaviors, respectively. Furthermore, we supplied the pure and surface-doped rodlike LC systems for comparison, which revealed that V shape molecular structure of BCN can produce charge carrier more efficiently than rodlike molecular structure does. Thus BCN materials can offer an exciting potential for optical information processing.

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