Optical nonlinearities of liquid crystals controlled by surfaces

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Nov 2001

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Proc. SPIE Vol. 4457, p. 1-8, Spatial Light Modulators: Technology and Applications, Uzi Efron; Ed.

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We show that light-induced modification of the anchoring conditions can lead to an extraordinarily large optical response in dye-doped nematic liquid crystals. The bulk reorientation due to the collective elastic behavior of the liquid crystal is the origin of the nonlinearity, which occurs without a direct optical torque on the molecular director in the bulk, We call this effect SINE (Surface Induced Nonlinear Effect). These results can also explain the origin of the supra-nonlinear behavior recently observed in the same composites.

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