Abstract
Photorefractive (PR) nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) possess large optical non-linearity but coarse grating spacings (tens of microns) and slow response time (generally in the order of 1 s). Here we presented a great improvement in PR performance of NLC cells containing photoconductive films as aligning layers by varying the thickness and the sensitizer concentration of the photoconductive layer to enhance the surface electric field modulation. As a result of optimising, considerable diffraction efficiencies and the response time as fast as tens of milliseconds were obtained from steady-state PR gratings within a wide range of grating spacings from 30 to 0.7 μm. Besides, the grating response was enhanced significantly compared with the previous reports under similar experimental conditions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1666-1673 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Liquid Crystals |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2 Dec 2015 |
Keywords
- liquid crystals
- photoconductive film
- surface-mediated photorefractive effect
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