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Optical Fréedericksz transition and director field structure recording in dye-doped nematic liquid-crystalline polymer. / Budagovsky, Ivan; Kuznetsov, Aleksey; Shvetsov, Sergey et al.
In: Journal of Molecular Liquids, Vol. 276, 15.02.2019, p. 275-281.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Optical Fréedericksz transition and director field structure recording in dye-doped nematic liquid-crystalline polymer
AU - Budagovsky, Ivan
AU - Kuznetsov, Aleksey
AU - Shvetsov, Sergey
AU - Smayev, Mikhail
AU - Zolot'ko, Alexander
AU - Statsenko, Pavel
AU - Trashkeev, Sergey
AU - Bobrovsky, Alexey
AU - Boiko, Natalia
AU - Shibaev, Valery
PY - 2019/2/15
Y1 - 2019/2/15
N2 - Dye-doped nematic liquid-crystalline polymers exhibit much higher orientational optical response than the systems based on low-molar-mass liquid crystals. In addition, polymer materials possess the glassy state, which allows one to record their supramolecular structure. We study the effect of light field inhomogeneity on the director deformation in the geometry of Fréedericksz transition and recording of corresponding phase structures. The relationship of the light beam width with the threshold light intensity and the size of the induced and recorded deformation region was determined. An influence of the beam waist radius on the polymer director relaxation time was detected. The results of numerical calculations based on the continuum theory and the independence of the enhancement factor of the optical torque on light–polymer interaction geometry agree with the experimental data.
AB - Dye-doped nematic liquid-crystalline polymers exhibit much higher orientational optical response than the systems based on low-molar-mass liquid crystals. In addition, polymer materials possess the glassy state, which allows one to record their supramolecular structure. We study the effect of light field inhomogeneity on the director deformation in the geometry of Fréedericksz transition and recording of corresponding phase structures. The relationship of the light beam width with the threshold light intensity and the size of the induced and recorded deformation region was determined. An influence of the beam waist radius on the polymer director relaxation time was detected. The results of numerical calculations based on the continuum theory and the independence of the enhancement factor of the optical torque on light–polymer interaction geometry agree with the experimental data.
KW - Fréedericksz transition
KW - Liquid-crystalline polymer
KW - Optical nonlinearity
KW - Optical recording
KW - Supramolecular structure
KW - BEAM
KW - PHASE
KW - LASER-INDUCED REORIENTATION
KW - LIGHT-INDUCED ORIENTATION
KW - Freedericksz transition
KW - MOLECULAR-REORIENTATION
KW - DEPENDENCE
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85057615768&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.11.113
DO - 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.11.113
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85057615768
VL - 276
SP - 275
EP - 281
JO - Journal of Molecular Liquids
JF - Journal of Molecular Liquids
SN - 0167-7322
ER -
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