Periodic structures generated by light in chiral liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 9273-9280

  Hrozhyk, U A ^a   Serak, S V ^a   Tabiryan, N V ^a   Bunning, T J ^b  

^a BEAM ENGINEERING FOR ADVANCED MEASUREMENTS CO   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; PHOTOISOMERIZATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY;

BLUE-SHIFTING; LOW POWER RADIATION; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 34547489134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009273     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. L. D. Barron, "Chirality, magnetism and light," Nature 405, 895-896 (2000).
2. D. Bradley, "A new twist in the tale of nature's asymmetry," Science 264, 908-910 (1994).
3. C. B. Stanley, H. Hong, and H. H. Strey, "DNA Cholesteric pitch as a function of density and ionic strength," Biophysical Journal 89, 2552-2557 (2005).
4. P. G. De Gennes, Physics of Liquid Crystals (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974).
5. L. M. Blinov and V. G. Chigrinov, Electrooptic effects in liquid crystal materials (Springer-Verlag, New York, Inc., 1994).
6. S. A. Pikin, Structural transformations in liquid crystals (Nauka, Moscow, 1981).
7. H. Hervet, J. Hurault, and F. Rondelez, "Static one-dimensional distortions in cholesteric liquid crystals," Phys. Rev. A8, 3055-3064 (1973).
8. V. G. Chigrinov, V. V. Belayev, S. V. Belyaev, and M. F. Grebenkin, "Instability of cholesteric liquid crystals in an electric field," Sov. Phys. JETF 50, 994-999 (1979).
9. N. Scaramuzza, R. Barberi, F. Simoni, F. Xu, G. Barbero, and R. Bartolino, "Buckling of a sheared cholesteric liquid crystal," Phys. Rev. A 32, 1134-1143 (1985).
10. N. A. Clark and R. B. Meyer, "Strain-induced instability of monodomain smectic A and cholesteric liquid crystals," Appl. Phys. Lett. 22, 493-494 (1973).
11. H. Pleiner and H. R. Brand, "Thermoundulations versus convection instability in cholesteric liquid crystals: A novel type of pattern competition," Phys. Rev. A 32, 3842-3844 (1985).
12. V. F. Kitaeva and A. S. Zolot'ko, "Square periodic distorsions of the director field in cholesteric liquid crystals," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 2, 261-279 (1992).
13. W. R. Folks, Yu. A. Reznikov, S. N. Yarmolenko, and O. D. Lavrentovich, "Light-induced periodic lattice of defects in smectic A and C liquid crystals: structural and dynamical aspects," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 292, 183-197 (1997).
14. Y. Lansac, M. Glaser, N. Clark, and O. D. Lavrentovich, "Photocontrolled nanophase segregation in a liquid-crystal solvent," Nature 398, 54-57 (1999).
15. U. A. Hrozhyk, S. V. Serak, N. V. Tabiryan, and T. J. Bunning, "Wide temperature range azobenzene nematic and smectic LC materials," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 454, 235-245 (2006).
16. U.A. Hrozhyk, S.V. Serak, N. V. Tabiryan, and T. J. Bunning, "Optical tuning of the reflection of azobenzene liquid crystal doped cholesterics," Adv. Materials, to be published), available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.200600776.
17. W. Haas, J. Adams, and J. Wysocki, "Interaction between UV radiation and cholesteric liquid crystals,' Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 7, 371-379 (1969).
18. E. Sackmann, "Photochemically induced reversible color changes in cholesteric liquid crystals," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 93, 7088-7090 (1971).
19. V. Vinogradov, A. Khizhniak, L. Kutulya, Yu. Reznikov, and V. Reshetnyak, "Photoinduced change of cholesteric LC-pitch," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 192, 273-278 (1990).
20. K. Shirota, K. Tachibana, and I. Yamaguchi, "Optical control of the pitch in cholesteric liquid crystals," Proc. SPIE 3740, 372-375 (1999).
21. C. Ruslim and R. Ichimura, "Conformational effect on macroscopic chirality modification of cholesteric mesophases by photochromic azobenzene dopants," J. Phys. Chem. B 104, 6529-6535 (2000).
22. N. Tamaoki, "Cholesteric liquid crystals for colour information technology," Adv. Mat. 13, 1135-1147 (2001).
23. S. Serak, E. Arikainen, H. Gleeson, V. Grozhik, J.-P. Guillou, and N. Usova, "Laser-induced concentric colour domains in a cholesteric liquid crystal mixture containing a nematic azobenzene dopant," Liq. Cryst. 29, 19-26 (2002).
24. Chanishvili, G. Chilaya, G. Petriashvili, and D. Sikharulidze, "Light induced effects in cholesteric mixtures with a photosensitive nematic host," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 409, 209-218 (2004).
25. N. V. Tabiryan, S. V. Serak, and V. A. Grozhik, "Photoinduced critical opalescence and reversible all-optical switching in photosensitive liquid crystals," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B. 20, 538-544 (2003).