TRANSIENT LASER-INDUCED ORTHOGONAL DIRECTOR-AXIS REORIENTATION IN DYE-DOPED LIQUID-CRYSTALS (DDLC)

被引:49
作者
LI, H
LIANG, Y
KHOO, IC
机构
[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
来源
MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SECTION A-MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS | 1994年 / 251卷
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1080/10587259408027194
中图分类号
O7 [晶体学];
学科分类号
0702 ; 070205 ; 0703 ; 080501 ;
摘要
We report the results of dynamic grating experiment with a planar dye-doped liquid crystal. The dye used is D2 (from EM chemicals). It was found that for this particular DDLC system, the excited state dye molecules caused interesting transient reorientations of the liquid crystal director axis in directions orthogonal to the initial molecular alignment.
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