Nonlinear optics of liquid crystalline materials

IC Khoo - Physics Reports, 2009 - Elsevier
Liquid crystals occupy an important niche in nonlinear optics as a result of their unique
physical and optical properties. Besides their broadband birefringence and transparency …

Enhanced two-beam coupling in colloids of ferroelectric nanoparticles in liquid crystals

O Buchnev, A Dyadyusha, M Kaczmarek… - JOSA B, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We report on the first, to the best of our knowledge, studies of photorefraction in nematic
liquid crystal (LC) doped with nanoferroelectric particles. We found the strong enhancement …

Orientational photorefractive effect in undoped and CdSe nanorods-doped nematic liquid crystal—bulk and interface contributions

IC Khoo, K Chen, YZ Williams - IEEE Journal of selected topics …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the work, we revisited the orientational photorefractive effect generated in nematic liquid
crystal (NLC) in a degenerate four-wave mixing interaction configuration. A detailed …

Tunable optical grating based on the flexoelectric effect in a bent-core nematic liquid crystal

Y Xiang, HZ Jing, ZD Zhang, WJ Ye, MY Xu, E Wang… - Physical Review …, 2017 - APS
Optical gratings are created by flexoelectric domains in a bent-core nematic liquid crystal. A
unique feature of this structure is that its wavelength can be controlled by the amplitude of …

High-efficiency video-rate holographic display using quantum dot doped liquid crystal

X Li, CP Chen, Y Li, P Zhou, X Jiang… - Journal of Display …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a real-time holographic display using quantum-dot doped liquid crystal with
a build-up time of several to tens of milliseconds, and the maximum diffraction efficiency is …

Highly photorefractive hybrid liquid crystal device for a video-rate holographic display

X Li, Y Li, Y Xiang, N Rong, P Zhou, S Liu, J Lu… - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we demonstrate a dynamic holographic display in a quantum dot (ZnS/InP)
doped liquid crystal device, where one of the interior cell surfaces is covered by a ZnSe …

Faster nonlinear optical response in liquid crystal cells containing gold nano-island films

S Bugaychuk, L Viduta, A Gridyakina, H Bordyuh… - Applied …, 2020 - Springer
We are considering a new type of electro-optical liquid crystal (LC) cells, which includes a
gold nano-island film deposited on the ITO electrode of one of the cell substrates. Using the …

Hidden surface photorefractive gratings in a nematic-liquid crystal cell in the absence of a deposited alignment layer

PP Korneychuk, OG Tereshchenko, YA Reznikov… - JOSA B, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We have carried out studies of photoinduced diffraction in a homeotropically aligned liquid-
crystal cell on indium tin oxide with no alignment layer deposited between the electrodes …

[HTML][HTML] 向列相液晶中非对称相位光栅的产生及形貌

任常愚, 李尤, 丁红伟 - Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and …, 2024 - opticsjournal.net
摘要为了研究液晶中相位光栅的动态衍射特性和光栅形貌, 提出了在C 60 掺杂垂直排列向列相
液晶(NLC) 中产生非对称光栅的方法, 分析了光栅产生机制并建立了光栅形貌的数学模型. 首先 …

Dynamic grating features for the surface-induced photorefractive effect in undoped nematics

P Pagliusi, G Cipparrone - JOSA B, 2004 - opg.optica.org
We investigate the highly sensitive surface-induced photorefractive gratings, observed in
undoped nematic planar cells for low dc voltage (few volts) and laser intensity (few milliwatts …