液晶波前校正器特性研究

利用808 nm大功率连续激光器研究了液晶的光功率承受特性结果表明,当功率密度为133 W/cm2时,液晶还能保持原有的光学调制特性,而且可以长时间稳定工作测定了液晶的波长色散特性,发现,随着波长的增加Δn值逐渐减少,近紫外300~400 nm波段Δn变化47％,而在400~780 nm变化量为28％,在780~900 nm Δn变化了2％还研究了温度对液晶波前校正器衍射效率的影响,随着温度的升高Δn逐渐减小,当温度从10℃升到90℃时,对于16台阶菲涅耳透镜,衍射效率下降了70%;但当温度在20℃变化10℃时,对4台阶菲涅耳透镜衍射效率最大变化量为1.7%,而对16台阶菲涅耳透镜,衍射效率降低了1.2%.     

Diffraction properties of highly birefringent liquid-crystal composite gratings

We have fabricated electrically switchable holographic gratings, using Polaroid Corporation's DMP-128 photopolymer filled with the nematic liquid crystal E7. It is shown that a coupled-wave theory that includes the effects of the birefringence of the liquid crystal must be used to explain the diffraction properties of these anisotropic volume gratings. Furthermore, a detailed comparison of theory and experiment provides information about the alignment of the liquid crystal within the polymer host.     

聚合物分散液晶增强散射的理想模型

介绍聚合物分散液晶技术新进展,应用光学原理对液晶微滴增强散射问题进行研究,提出液晶微滴最佳间距判据,液晶微滴间隔处聚合物材料光学厚度满足增反膜条件;提出液晶微滴最佳直径判据,液晶微滴直径满足双折射相消干涉条件;提出聚合物与液晶最佳配比的计算方法,应用晶体学原子堆积致密度知识给出最佳配比的计算结果.建立一种聚合物分散液晶增强散射的理想模型,进而从更基本的光学原理出发对异常散射理论模拟计算和实验上确定的液晶微滴最佳直径和聚合物与液晶最佳配比问题给出十分简单明确的理论解释.     

Temperature effect on the diffraction efficiency of the liquid crystal spatial light modulator

Temperature effect on the diffraction efficiency of the liquid crystal spatial light modulator is investigated. The birefringence of the liquid crystal as functions of the temperature is measured with and without the power supply. It is shown that the birefringence reduces while the temperature increases. And the change magnitude of the birefringence has an exponential decay relation with the applied voltage for different temperature intervals. The scalar diffractive theory is used to analyze this effect on the diffraction efficiency. It indicates that the diffraction efficiency decreases from 98.7% to 27.2% while the temperature increases from 10 to 90 °C for 16 quantified levels. At last, temperature effect on its applications in optical testing and wavefront correction is discussed. It indicates that it has almost no effect on optical testing, but has an important effect on wavefront correction. And two solutions are given to eliminate this effect.     

Applied electric field effect on light-scattering birefringence of dye-doped liquid crystal molecule and consistent neural network empirical physical formula construction for scattering intensities

In this paper, we realized two objectives. Firstly, birefringence of azo and anthraquinone dye-doped nematic liquid crystal (NLC) molecules was investigated by applied electric field dependent laser scattering intensities. The birefringence was essentially calculated from ordinary and extraordinary ray phase difference, which is determined from the measured intensities corresponding to parallel and perpendicular orientations of analyzer to polarizer. The birefringence was found to be dependent on both applied voltage and the kind of the doping dye. As the second objective, by nonlinear universal function approximator layered feedforward neural network (LFNN), we constructed explicit form of empirical physical formulas (EPFs) for experimentally measured dye-doped NLC nonlinear scattering intensities. Excellent LFNN test set predictions over yet-to-be measured experimental data proved that the constructed LFNN-EPFs estimated the measured intensities consistently. The correlation coefficients assessing the goodness of predictions were about r = 0.998for all cases. The LFNN-EPFs also extracted the intensity dependency on the kind of dye used. When theoretical and LFNN-EPFs intensities are compared, we conclude that given certain experimental conditions, theoretical and LFNN-EPFs predictions are in excellent agreement. In this sense, we can say that the physical laws embedded in the birefringence scattering data can be consistently extracted by LFNN. Therefore, judging from the consistent extraction of the molecular dependencies of pure and doped NLC intensities, we predict that the LFNN-EPFs can help to identify unknown molecular structural parameters in liquid crystal extracts. More concretely, by suitable mathematical operations such as differentiation, integration, minimization on these intensity LFNN-EPFs, some useful information into the charge distributions of the LC molecules can be gained.     

液晶电控双折射偏光显微镜观测实验

介绍液晶电控双折射知识,给出在偏光显微镜下观测液晶盒的颜色随外加电压变化的实验。该实验对丰富大学物理实验内容,拓宽学生知识具有一定的意义。     

Surface recombination and photorefraction in LiNbO3-Fe Crystals

A spontaneous decrease of photorefraction (quasi-breakdown) has been studied in LiNbO₃−Fe (0.1 wt%) crystals. It is shown that the quasi-breakdown effect depends on the crystal environment (air, argon) and is absent in a liquid dielectric medium. Quasibreakdown can be avoided reducing the diameter of the light beam from a He−Ne laser. The critical value of birefringence change for quasi-breakdown decreases with growing temperature. The quasi-breakdown effect is also observable after illumination, in the dark. It is shown that quasi-breakdown can be explained by the recombination of light-induced space charge carriers at the surface or in the environment (air, argon) near the crystal surface. The erasure of photorefraction with quasi-breakdown is performed under under uniform illumination of the crystal with visible light.     

高双折射纳米结构光子晶体光纤特性研究

设计了一种高双折射高非线性纳米结构光子晶体光纤,利用电磁场散射的多极理论研究了这种光纤的双折射、基模模场、色散以及非线性特性.数值研究发现,加大纤芯及包层空气孔的非对称程度,可使双折射变大,其双折射最大值可达1.918×10-2.通过调节孔节距大小,可将双折射最大值调至所需波长处,孔节距为400nm的纳米光子晶体光纤在800nm波长处非线性系数高达0.2m-1.W-1,同时在750—1000nm的波段有较大的双折射值,高双折射和高非线性在纳米结构光子晶体光纤中实现了完美的结合.对新型纳米光子器件的研制和集成光学的发展具有重要意义.     

Influence of additional electric field on the birefringence of a nematic liquid crystal

Influence of the longitudinal voltage applied along the semiconductor substrate of a planar-oriented liquid crystal cell on the birefringence of a nematic liquid crystal (NLC) was investigated. It is shown that for a fixed magnitude of the transverse field the application of a longitudinal voltage creates an additional possibility to control the electro-optically induced phase incursion of the radiation passing through NLC. Dependence of the phase incursion on the control voltages is obtained. The results of simulation of the longitudinal voltage effect on the NLC reorientation are described. The obtained results can be used in development and designing of NLC phase modulators.     

液晶磁控偏光特性的研究

利用偏光干涉理论,通过对BL-009型向列相液晶透射比的测试,分析了液晶透射比随磁场的变化情况,并对液晶的磁控双折射效应进行了研究.实验在室温20℃下用JG-3型连续可调磁场仪对液晶盒施加垂直于其表面的磁场,用CT5A型特斯拉计准确读出磁场强度数值,使液晶盒光轴方向与起偏镜和检偏镜偏振方向成45°,分别测出了起偏镜和检偏镜偏振方向平行和垂直时的透射光强度.通过数学函数拟合,得出了液晶的双折射率随磁场的变化规律,即：当磁场强度大于液晶的阈值磁场时,拟合函数能很好地描述液晶磁控双折射率的变化规律.     

液晶棱镜双折射实验

介绍了液晶棱镜盒的制作及利用其测试液晶双折射的实验方法.这种棱镜盒的2片梯形透明导电玻璃的重合部分为等边三角形.不加电场时,液晶盒不是光学各向异性的单轴晶体,没有双折射现象,只能观察到散射现象;在电极上施加电压使液晶垂面排列,液晶盒成双折射单晶,利用三棱镜最小偏向角原理测试液晶双折射率.     

双折射位相差的拟合表达式及其应用

探讨双折射晶体的ｏ光和ｅ光的位相差的表达式，对文献中常引用的表达式作近似展开，得到一个适用性的拟合表达式及其拟合系数与昌体或液晶双折射率之间的关系，并给出该表达式的简单应用。它可作为设计晶体旋转法测试液晶双折射和预角测试仪的原理。     

单块偏振片反射式向列相液晶显示器的理论设计与实验制造研究

反射式液晶显示器(RLCDs)具有亮度高、无视差等优点,并且结构简单,适合于现行的制造工艺和驱动方式.本文利用我们提出的参数空间法(偏振片角度、扭曲角及双折射率的函数)研究了适用于反射式液晶显示器,这种研究表明所有的反射式液晶显示模式都可以在这个参数空间里得以表述,如扭曲向列型的电控双折射模式(TN-ECB),混合场效应模式(HFE),混合向列型模式(MTN),以及自补偿向列型模式(SCTN).在此基础上我们提出几种新的反射模式,如反射向列型及反射超扭曲向列型(通过搜索参数空间得到),二者均适用于直视型和投影型显示方式.我们已制成反射向列型及反射超扭曲向列型样品,实验结果和理论设计符合一致.     

Electro-optical phase shift in polymer dispersed liquid crystals

An anisotropic version of the Maxwell Garnett approximation is applied for studying the electro-optical phase modulation by polymer dispersed liquid crystals (PDLC). The PDLC contain bipolar liquid crystal droplets that can be reoriented by an external field causing a change in the optical birefringence. This approach provides an explicit link between the droplet orientation distribution and the electro-optical phase shift. For aligned droplets we find that the sharpness of the change in the birefringence may be controlled by selecting the initial orientation. For a planar distribution we find sharp transitions with a hysteresis loop whose width depends on the droplet concentration. For a random distribution, the droplet orientation and the optical phase shift change more gradually with the applied field. These results demonstrate that PDLC may be suitable for a wide range of electro-optic applications based on their field-induced phase modulation properties. In addition, it is apparent that the optical phase shift is quite sensitive to changes in droplet orientation. It should therefore be useful for studying reorientation phenomena in PDLC, overcoming the problems due to light scattering in these materials. Received 25 November 1999 and Received in final form 20 January 2000     

The effects of external applied voltage on the nonlinear refractive index and the birefringence of a dye-doped nematic mixture

The nonlinear refractive index, n₂, and the birefringence, Δn, of a nematic liquid crystal mixture (denoted as 1294-1b) doped with a anthraquinone derivative (denoted as AQ) dye were measured as a function of an external ac applied voltage. The self-phased modulation effect was used to measure the nonlinear refractive index of homeotropical-aligned samples. The change of the dyed liquid crystal nonlinearity, which is the direct impact of the applied voltage on the dye molecules orientation, was not observed for the nonlinear response of the pure liquid crystal. Planar (homogeneous) aligned samples were used for birefringence measurements by taking into account the absorption coefficients of the dye. The birefringence decreased to a limiting value in the high voltage region for both pure and dye-doped samples, although in the presence of the absorbing dye the birefringence of the liquid crystal was not approximately changed.The polarized absorption spectra of the dye in nematic mixture were recorded in parallel-aligned liquid crystal cell and its dichroic ratio R and the order parameter S_d were obtained. The electro-optical effect of the guest-host system was also using polarized spectroscopic method.     

Optical defect modes at an active defect layer in photonic liquid crystals

An analytic approach to the theory of the optical defect modes in photonic liquid crystals in the case of an active defect layer is developed. The analytic study is facilitated by the choice of the problem parameters related to the dielectric properties of the studied structures. The chosen models allow eliminating polarization mixing at the external surfaces of the studied structures. The dispersion equations determining the relation of the defect mode (DM) frequency to the dielectric characteristics of an isotropic, birefringent and absorbing (amplifying) defect layer and its thickness are obtained. Analytic expressions for the transmission and reflection coefficients of the defect mode structure (DMS) (photonic liquid crystal-active defect layer-photonic liquid crystal) are presented and analyzed. The effect of anomalously strong light absorption at the defect mode frequency for an absorbing defect layer is discussed. It is shown that in a distributed feed-back lasing at the DMS with an amplifying defect layer, adjusting the lasing frequency to the DM frequency results in a significant decrease in the lasing threshold and the threshold gain decreases as the defect layer thickness increases. It is found that, generally speaking, the layer birefringence and dielectric jumps at the interfaces of the defect layer and photonic liquid crystal reduce the DM lifetime in comparison with the DMS with an isotropic defect layer without dielectric jumps at the interfaces. Correspondingly, generally speaking, the effect of anomalously strong light absorption at the defect mode frequency and the decrease in the lasing threshold are not so pronounced as in the case of the DMS with an isotropic defect layer without dielectric jumps at the interfaces. The case of a DMS with a low defect layer birefringence and sufficiently large dielectric jumps are studied in detail. The options of effectively influencing the DM parameters by changing the defect layer dielectric properties, and the birefringence in particular, are discussed.     

Influence of barrier effects at interfaces on dynamic scattering of light in a nematic liquid crystal

The intensity of light dynamic scattering by a nematic liquid crystal with negative dielectric anisotropy (ZhK-440) as a function of the constant electric field strength has been studied under different interfacial conditions. It has been shown that potential barriers that arise at the interfaces not only influence the scattering intensity, but may also radically change the form of the dependence; i.e., the curves of optical transmission in the direction of the incident beam may have a minimum under certain field strengths. At higher strengths, the cells become totally transparent again. This anomalous behavior of the transmission curve is associated with the fact that the conductivity of the cells drops below a critical value with growing field strength, as the resistance of the space charge region at the inversely biased junction of the extraction electrode rises. In addition, it has been shown that the high resistance of the cells at low voltages may be attributed not only to a low concentration of impurities in the liquid crystal, but also to a low emissivity of the injecting electrode and a weak electron affinity of the extraction electrode.     

Light scattering,flow birefringence and generalized hydrodynamics

The stress-optical coefficient ?, which is measured in flow birefringence experiments, is calculated using the generalized hydrodynamic equations which have been recently used to explain the k-dependent fine structure observed in depolarized (VH) light scattering. The resulting expressions allow a comparison of the strength of the birefiringence effect with that of the light scattering fine structure effect in a given liquid. It is seen that the combination of flow birefringence and VH scattering measurements yields the orientational structure factor g ⁽²⁾ of Ben-Reuven and Gershon. The theory is in reasonable agreement with experiment. The combination of our results with those of Raman and Krishnan yields a simple expression for the parameter δ which measures the strength of the stress-orientational effect. The dependence of the stress-optimal coefficient upon orientational order is briefly discussed.     

偶氮液晶聚合物中的非线性光致双折射

介绍了在偶氮液晶聚合物薄膜P-CN中发现的非线性光致双折射现象,给出了非线性光致双折射实验的具体结果.采用Z扫描技术验证了光致双折射的非线性过程本质,测量了P-CN介质薄膜的非线性吸收系数.讨论了光致双折射涉及的异构化微观机理,并在此基础上提出了非线性光光异构化实现光致双折射的方法 关键词： 液晶聚合物 光致双折射 光致异构化