Open AccessNonlinear Optical Response of Smectic Glasses Based on Cobalt Alkanoates
Author(s) -
A. Gridyakina,
Yuriy Garbovskiy,
G. V. Klimusheva,
A.P. Polischuk
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
ukrainian journal of physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.213
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2071-0194
pISSN - 2071-0186
DOI - 10.15407/ujpe57.2.177
Subject(s) - nanosecond , nonlinear optical , materials science , anisotropy , cobalt , nonlinear system , holography , laser , optics , polarization (electrochemistry) , nonlinear optics , optical anisotropy , condensed matter physics , physics , chemistry , quantum mechanics , metallurgy
The nonlinear-optical response of anisotropic smectic glasses based on cobalt-alkanoates is studied using the method of dynamic holography. Laser-induced dynamic gratings under the action of nanosecond laser pulses are observed and analyzed for such materials. It is found that a cubic optical nonlinearity of all studied anisotropic glasses is of electronic origin in the nanosecond diapason and caused by a nonlinear polarization of cobalt-alkanoates complexes.