Determination of large nematic pre-tilt in liquid crystal cells with mechanically rubbed photorefractive Ce:SBN windows

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5365-5375

  Sutherland, Richard L ^a,b   Cook, Gary ^a,c   Evans, Dean R ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CERIUM; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; GLASS; OPTICAL ROTATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

FABRICATION METHODS; NEMATIC PRE-TILT IN LIQUID CRYSTAL CELLS; SINGLE CRYSTAL BIREFRINGENT; STRONTIUM BARIUM NIOBATE;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33745142956     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.005365     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. I. C. Khoo, B. D. Guenther, M. V. Wood, P. Chen, and M.-Y. Shih, "Coherent beam amplification with a photorefractive liquid crystal," Opt. Lett. 22, 1229-1231 (1997).
2. F. Kajzar, S. Bartkiewicz, and A. Miniewicz, "Optical amplification with high gain in hybrid-polymer-liquid-crystal structures," Appl. Phys. Lett. 74, 2924-2926 (1999).
3. S. Bartkiewicz, K. Matczyszyn, A. Miniewicz, and F. Kajzar, "High gain of light in photoconducting polymer-nematic liquid crystal hybrid structures," Opt. Commun. 187, 257-261 (2001).
4. G. Cook, C. A. Wyres, M. J. Deer, and D. C. Jones, "Hybrid organic-inorganic photorefractives," Proc. SPIE 5213, 63-77 (2003).
5. G. Cook, J. L. Cams, M. A. Saleh, and D. R. Evans, "Substrate induced pre-tilt in hybrid liquid crystal/inorganic photorefractives," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. (in press).
6. G. Baur, V. Wittmer, and D. W. Berreman, "Determination of the tilt angles at surfaces of substrates in liquid crystal cells," Phys. Lett. 56, 142-144 (1976).
7. T. J. Scheffer and J. Nehring, "Accurate determination of liquid-crystal tilt bias angles," J. Appl. Phys. 48, 1783-1792 (1977).
8. K. Han, T. Miyashita, and T. Uchida, "Accurate determination and measurement error of pretilt angle in liquid crystal cell," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 32, L277-L279 (1993).
9. P. Yeh, "Extended Jones matrix method," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72, 507-513 (1982).
10. C. Gu and P. Yeh, "Extended Jones matrix method. II," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10, 966-973 (1993).
11. M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, Fifth Ed. (Pergamon Press, New York, 1975).
12. K. Takatoh, M. Hasegawa, M. Koden, N. Itoh, R. Hasegawa, and M. Sakamoto, Alignment Technologies and Applications of Liquid Crystal Devices (Taylor & Francis, New York, 2005).
13. J. M. Geary, J. W. Goodby, A. R. Kmetz, and J. S. Patel, "The mechanism of polymer alignment of liquid-crystal materials," J. Appl. Phys. 62, 4100-4108 (1987).
14. 5.78," J. Chem. Phys. 48, 5048-5057 (1968).
15. 3+ in strontium-barium niobate," J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 12, 4277-4284 (2000).