Two beam energy exchange in hybrid liquid crystal cells with photorefractive field controlled boundary conditions

We develop a theory describing energy gain when two light beams intersect in a hybrid nematic liquid crystal (LC) cell with photorefractive crystalline substrates. A periodic space-charge field induced by interfering light beams in the photorefractive substrates penetrates into the LC layer and reor...

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Published in:AIP advances 2016-09, Vol.6 (9), p.095207-095207-9
Main Authors: Reshetnyak, V. Yu, Pinkevych, I. P., Subota, S. I., Evans, D. R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anchoring
Boundary conditions
Dependence
Exchanging
Gratings (spectra)
Light beams
Liquid crystals
Nematic crystals
Photorefractivity
Substrates
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Summary:We develop a theory describing energy gain when two light beams intersect in a hybrid nematic liquid crystal (LC) cell with photorefractive crystalline substrates. A periodic space-charge field induced by interfering light beams in the photorefractive substrates penetrates into the LC layer and reorients the director. We account for two main mechanisms of the LC director reorientation: the interaction of the photorefractive field with the LC flexopolarization and the director easy axis at the cell boundaries. It is shown that the resulting director grating is a sum of two in-phase gratings: the flexoelectric effect driven grating and the boundary-driven grating. Each light beam diffracts from the induced gratings leading to an energy exchange between beams. We evaluate the signal beam gain coefficient and analyze its dependence on the director anchoring energy and the magnitude of the director easy axis modulation.
ISSN:2158-3226
2158-3226
DOI:10.1063/1.4962936