Abstract
An optical field influences the orientation of a nematic liquid crystal, which gives rise to a nonlinear optical response. This is analyzed in the high speed limit where the elastic forces are insignificant compared with the viscous forces. An optimum liquid path length of ~0.1 mm is predicted from light scattering theory. The nonlinearity is characterized by a diffraction efficiency ∝ (write energy)2/(viscosity)2 at the optimum path length. The optimum path length and, therefore, diffraction efficiency are shown to increase with suppression of scattering by a voltage pulse prior to the optical pulse.
© 1984 Optical Society of America
Full Article | PDF ArticleMore Like This
I. C. Khoo
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(12) A45-A55 (2011)
Laura Cattaneo, Matteo Savoini, Igor Muševič, Alexey Kimel, and Theo Rasing
Opt. Express 23(11) 14010-14017 (2015)
Vittorio Maria Di Pietro, Aurélie Jullien, Umberto Bortolozzo, Nicolas Forget, and Stefania Residori
Opt. Express 26(8) 10716-10728 (2018)