Interferometric analysis of reorientational nonlinear phenomena at 10.6 μm in a nematic liquid crystal

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 4827-4834

  Allaria, Enrico ^a   Brugioni, Stefano ^a   De Nicola, Sergio ^b   Ferraro, Pietro ^c   Grilli, Simonetta ^a   Meucci, Riccardo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHASE MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

OPTICAL FRINGE PATTERNS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0042788110     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004827     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. C. Khoo and S. T. Wu, Optics and Nonlinear Optics of Liquid Crystals (World Scientific, Singapore, 1993).
2. F. Simoni, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals and Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals (World Scientific, Singapore, 1997).
3. A. S. Zolot’ko, V. F. Kitaeva, N. Kroo, N. N. Sobolev, and L. Csillag, “Freedericsz transition in MBBA crystal due to a light wave field,” JETP Lett. 34, 250-254 (1981).
4. J. C. Khoo, S. L. Zhuang, and S. Shepard, “Self-focusing of a low power cw laser beam via optically induced birefringence in a nematic liquid-crystal film,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 39, 937-940 (1981).
5. C. Khoo, T. H. Liu, and P. Y. Yan, “Nonlocal radial dependence of laser-induced molecular reorientation in a nematic liquid crystal: theory and experiment,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 4, 115-120 (1987).
6. S. D. Durbin, S. M. Arakelian, and Y. R. Shen, “Laser-induced diffraction rings from a nematic-liquid-crystal film,” Opt. Lett. 6, 411-413 (1981).
7. C. Khoo, J. Y. Hou, T. H. Liu, P. Y. Yan, R. R. Michael, and G. M. Finn, “Transverse self-phase modulation and bistability in the transmission of a laser beam through a nonlinear thin film,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 4, 886-891 (1987).
8. W. K. Bajdecki, L. Calero, and R. Meucci, “Nonlinear infrared optical measurements of elastic constants in a nematic liquid crystal,” Opt. Commun. 176, 473-477 (2000).
9. 2laser in nematic liquid crystals,” Opt. Commun. 168, 201-206 (1999).
10. 2laser,” Opt. Commun. 206, 445-451 (2002).
11. D. De Feo, S. De Nicola, P. Ferraro, P. Maddalena, and G. Pierattini, “A Fourier-transform-based interferometric technique for measuring the elastic anisotropy of a nematic liquid crystal,” Pure Appl. Opt. 7, 1301-1308 (1998).
12. E. Allaria, S. Brugioni, S. De Nicola, P. Ferraro, S. Grilli, and R. Meucci, “Digital holography at 10.6 rm,” Opt. Commun. 215, 257-262 (2003).
13. J. W. Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1968).
14. S. De Nicola and P. Ferraro, “A two-dimensional fast Fourier transform method for measuring the inclination angle of parallel fringe patterns,” Opt. Laser Technol. 30, 167-173 (1998).
15. I. H. Takeda and S. Kobayashy, “Fourier-transform method of fringe-pattern analysis for computed-based topography and interferometry,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72, 156-160 (1982).
16. T. Kreiss, Computer-Aided Evaluation of Holographic Inter-ferograms Holographic Interferometry, P. K. Rastogy, eds. (Springer, Berlin, 1994).