Polarization sensitive electroreflectance was used to study a typical hybrid photoconducting polymer–liquid crystal (LC) structure. Similar structures serve as optically addressed liquid crystalline spatial light modulators in real-time holography. It was shown that this technique might be used for the evaluation of internal electric-field changes in the vicinity of LC layer due to light-induced photogeneration and transport of charge carriers in the photoconducting polymer layer. A simplified theory presented in this work clarifies the experimental technique and the obtained results for the planar nematic LC panel. Employing the formalism of nonlinear optics for a particular type of LC (seven-component nematic mixture), we measured that the low-frequency (Ω/2π=1680 Hz) main component of a cubic optical susceptibility tensor χijkl(3)(−ω;0,Ω,ω) along the director direction is χa(3)=(7.4±1.5)×10−16 m2/V2.

Photoconductng polymer-liquid crystal structure studied by electro-reflectance / A., Miniewicz; Michelotti, Francesco; Belardini, Alessandro. - In: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS. - ISSN 0021-8979. - STAMPA. - 95:(2004), pp. 1141-1147. [10.1063/1.1637706]

Photoconductng polymer-liquid crystal structure studied by electro-reflectance

MICHELOTTI, Francesco;BELARDINI, ALESSANDRO
2004

Abstract

Polarization sensitive electroreflectance was used to study a typical hybrid photoconducting polymer–liquid crystal (LC) structure. Similar structures serve as optically addressed liquid crystalline spatial light modulators in real-time holography. It was shown that this technique might be used for the evaluation of internal electric-field changes in the vicinity of LC layer due to light-induced photogeneration and transport of charge carriers in the photoconducting polymer layer. A simplified theory presented in this work clarifies the experimental technique and the obtained results for the planar nematic LC panel. Employing the formalism of nonlinear optics for a particular type of LC (seven-component nematic mixture), we measured that the low-frequency (Ω/2π=1680 Hz) main component of a cubic optical susceptibility tensor χijkl(3)(−ω;0,Ω,ω) along the director direction is χa(3)=(7.4±1.5)×10−16 m2/V2.
2004
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Photoconductng polymer-liquid crystal structure studied by electro-reflectance / A., Miniewicz; Michelotti, Francesco; Belardini, Alessandro. - In: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS. - ISSN 0021-8979. - STAMPA. - 95:(2004), pp. 1141-1147. [10.1063/1.1637706]
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