Utilizing critical angles in sensing partially ordered liquid crystal profile

doi:10.1364/OE.17.023729

Utilizing critical angles in sensing partially ordered liquid crystal profile

Alaeddin S. Abu-Abed and Robert G. Lindquist »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 26, pp. 23729-23735 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.023729

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Abstract

This paper investigates a new approach for tracking nematic uniaxial liquid crystal (LC) profile in partially ordered LC based sensors. This approach utilizes measuring critical angles for total internal reflection (TIR) at the interface of optically isotropic and partially ordered LC film. The proposed optical transduction requires measuring of the ordinary critical angle and two extraordinary critical angles in orthogonal directions to report the LC degree of ordering and the director axis orientation.

OCIS Codes
(130.6010) Integrated optics : Sensors
(160.3710) Materials : Liquid crystals
(230.3720) Optical devices : Liquid-crystal devices
(260.1440) Physical optics : Birefringence

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Optical Devices

History
Original Manuscript: August 31, 2009
Revised Manuscript: November 3, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: November 5, 2009
Published: December 11, 2009

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Alaeddin S. Abu-Abed and Robert G. Lindquist, "Utilizing critical angles in sensing partially ordered liquid crystal profile," Opt. Express 17, 23729-23735 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-26-23729

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A. S. Abu-Abed, "Optical waves in partially ordered anisotropic media," Opt. Express 17, 1646-1651 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

IEEE Sens. J.

A. S. Abu-Abed and R. G. Lindquist, "Capacitive transduction for liquid crystal based sensors, part II: partially disordered systems," IEEE Sens. J. 8, 1557-15642008). [CrossRef]

IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.

T. Woliński, A. Czapla, S. Ertman, M. Tefelska, A. Domański, J. Wójcik, E. Kruszelnicki, and R. Dabrowski, "Photonic liquid crystal fibers for sensing applications," IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. 57, 1796-1802 (2008). [CrossRef]

J. Mod. Opt.

F. Yang and J. R. Sambles, "Critical angles for reflectivity at an isotropic-anisotropic boundary," J. Mod. Opt. 40, 1131-1142 (1993). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

H. Zhang, P. Guo, P. Chen, S. Chang, and J. Yuan, "Liquid-crystal-filled photonic crystal for terahertz switch and filter," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 26, 101-106 (2009). [CrossRef]

Langmuir

B. H. Clare and N. L. Abbott, "Orientations of nematic liquid crystals on surfaces presenting controlled densities of peptides: amplification of protein-peptide binding events," Langmuir 21, 6451-6461 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Express

A. S. Abu-Abed, "Optical waves in partially ordered anisotropic media," Opt. Express 17, 1646-1651 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Other

S. Sridharamurthy, K. Cadwell, N. Abbott, and H. Jiang, "A Liquid crystal based gas sensor using microfabricated pillar arrays as a support structure," Proc. IEEE Sensors Conference, 1044-1047 (2007).

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