相位延迟法液晶沿面排列瞬态热效应

用光学相位延迟法,以YAG短脉冲激光进行激励,对丝状液晶沿面排列的瞬态热效应进行了观测、记录,并对实验结果作了部分讨论．实验结果表明,热效应可能导致液晶分子的重新定向,但液晶中掺入偶氮苯类,光致异构杂质对热效应影响不大,而掺入手征性杂质却出现短暂记忆作用. 关键词：     

相位延迟法平行排列丝状液晶在静磁场中扭曲效应研究

对平行排列5CB（4′-n-penty1-4-cyanobinpheny1)丝状液晶在静磁场中扭曲变形做了严格的数值解,给出了严格分布情况;利用光学“4*4”矩阵算法,计算了线偏振光在严格分布下的传输情况;在实验方面,应用光学相位延迟法对平行排列5CB丝状液晶在静磁场中（温度27℃）线偏振光的通过情况进行了测量.理论计算和实验结果说明在非长螺距近似条件下可用线偏振光对平行排列丝状液晶的物理性质进行实验研究.     

超短脉冲激光在有机分子材料中的动力学过程研究

利用从头计算方法，在密度泛函理论上，计算了分子的电子结构和电偶极矩.通过求解麦克斯韦-布洛赫方程，研究了超短脉冲激光与硝基苯胺分子材料的相互作用，着重分析了分子的固有偶极矩对脉冲激光波形、频谱成分以及分子能级占有率产生的影响.研究结果表明，慢变幅近似和旋波近似不能很好地描述超短脉冲在PNA分子介质中传播.分子的固有偶极矩进一步使脉冲传播背离面积定理，引起了脉冲更快地分裂.当脉冲激光在PNA分子介质中以电荷转移态的激发能共振传播时，脉冲激光频谱中明显地出现了二次谐波成分，显示了该分子具有较强的双光子吸收性质. 关键词： 超短脉冲激光 硝基苯胺分子 麦克斯韦-布洛赫方程     

级联三能级模型下超短脉冲激光与分子相互作用的动力学研究

通过求解麦克斯韦-布洛赫方程，研究了超短脉冲激光和一维对称π共轭分子材料(4,4′-二甲氨基二苯乙烯分子)的相互作用.该分子材料具有较强的非线性光学性质，其分子的电子结构和电偶极矩是在密度泛函理论水平上利用从头计算方法得到的.研究结果表明，慢变幅近似和旋波近似不能很好地描述超短脉冲在该分子介质中的传播.在单光子共振情况下，保持入射脉冲的脉冲宽度不变，当小面积脉冲在该分子介质中传播时，二能级模型可以较好地描述脉冲激光与该分子体系的相互作用过程.但对于大面积脉冲激光，由于较明显地产生了分子的二次激发，此时分子 关键词： 超短脉冲激光 4′-二甲氨基二苯乙烯分子 三能级模型 麦克斯韦-布洛赫方程     

部分物理学国家重点实验室和部门开放实验室简介(Ⅱ)

超快速激光光谱实验室实验室主任:余振新学术委员会主任:高兆兰地址:510275 广州,中山大学电话:446300-925 中山大学超快速激光光谱实验室属我国首批建设的国家重点实验室.1984年9月批准筹建,1988年1月通过国家验收,并正式对外开放.1.实验室的研究方向和目标 该实验室以超短激光脉冲与时间分辨光谱学及其在物理、化学和生物学中超快过程的应用研究为主攻方向,同时开展超短激光脉冲与物质相互作用过程中的各种非线性现象的研究. 利用不同光谱波段的高强度超短激光脉冲可以激励或改变原子分子及物质体系的结构和运动状态,这伴随着各种光物理、…     

低强度周期量级脉冲驱动排列分子的非次序双电离

本文利用三维经典系综模型研究了低强度周期量级脉冲驱动排列分子的非次序双电离. 结果表明, 电子对的关联特性强烈地依赖于分子的排列方向和激光脉冲的载波包络相位; 垂直分子反关联电子对的比例总是高于平行分子反关联电子对的比例; 当载波包络相位从0到π 逐渐增加时, 反关联电子对的数目先增加再减少; 对于平行分子, 电子对的释放总是以正关联为主; 而垂直分子的主导关联模式则依赖于激光脉冲的载波包络相位, 当载波包络相位为0.3π-0.7π之间时, 电子对以反关联释放为主, 其他相位下以正关联为主. 本文利用分子势能曲线和电子返回能量很好地解释了电子关联特性对分子排列方向和载波包络相位的依赖关系.     

利用激光感应瞬态光栅技术测量超短激光脉冲宽度

描述了利用激光感应瞬态光栅技术测量超短脉冲激光的脉冲宽度和相干时间的方法，来自同一光源的两束激光在非线性介质中相干形成积分光栅，测量光栅自衍射强度与两束光脉冲之间的延迟时间关系，利用相干光束的四阶相干函数关系，可以求出光源的脉冲宽度和相干时间。     

周期量级超短脉冲激光在有机分子材料中的传播

利用从头计算方法,在密度泛函理论上,计算了硝基苯胺(para-Nitroaniline,pNA)分子的电偶极距.通过严格求解麦克斯韦-布洛赫方程,研究了周期量级超短脉冲激光与硝基苯胺分子材料的相互作用,研究显示当超短脉冲在分子中共振传播时,会出现高频与低频成分,随传播距离的增加.频谱的展宽越来越明显,而分子能级占有率之差在电场为零时,表现出一种台阶的特征;当超短脉冲激光在该分子介质中非共振传播时,脉冲激光频谱中明显地出现了二次谐波成分.     

超短脉冲激光在二维非均匀介质内的瞬态辐射传输

随着超短脉冲激光的快速发展,吸收散射性介质内的瞬态辐射传输引起了广泛的关注.本文采用最小二乘有限元法模拟了超短脉冲激光局部入射条件下,具有高散射核的二维非均匀介质内的瞬态辐射传输.研究了不同边界位置上反射和透射信号随时间的变化情况.结果表明,对于具有高散射核的非均匀介质,能够揭示散射核位置的双峰现象可能在早期的反射信号中发生,早期的反射信号比后期的、经过介质衰减后信号更重要.因此,在利用短脉冲激光进行光谱分析和成像等技术中,人们应该重视早期反射信号的测量.     

超短脉冲激光与乙醇微滴相互作用中超热电子的双叶状角分布

测量了聚焦光强为1016W/cm2的超短脉冲激光与乙醇微滴相互作用中产生的能量大于50?keV的超热电子的角分布和电子能谱.观察到的超热电子角分布明显依赖于激光的偏振特性，在与激光偏振平面平行的平面上超热电子相对于激光入射方向呈对称的双叶状分布.超热电子的能谱显示超热电子的最大能量大于750?keV.以上超热电子的角分布可用一个基于共振吸收机制的模型加以解释. 关键词： 超短脉冲激光 超热电子 微滴 共振吸收     

Emergent biaxiality in nematic microflows illuminated by a laser beam

Anisotropic fluids (e.g. liquid crystals) offer a remarkable promise as optofluidic materials owing to the directional, tunable, and coupled interactions between the material, flow, and the optical fields. Here we present a comprehensive in silico treatment of this anisotropic interaction by performing nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. We quantify the response of a nematic liquid crystal (NLC) undergoing a Poiseuille flow in the Stokes regime, while being illuminated by a laser beam incident perpendicular to the flow direction. We adopt a minimalistic model to capture the interactions, accounting for two features: first, the laser heats up the NLC locally; and second, the laser polarises the NLC and exerts an optical torque that tends to reorient molecules of the nematic phase. Because of this reorientation the liquid crystal exhibits small regions of biaxiality, where the nematic director is one symmetry axis and the axis of rotation for the reorientation of the molecules is the other one. We find that the relative strength of the viscous and the optical torques mediates the flow-induced response of the biaxial regions, thereby tuning the emergence, shape and location of the regions of enhanced biaxiality. The mechanistic framework presented here promises experimentally tractable routes toward novel optofluidic applications based on material-flow-light interactions.     

Improvement of voltage-dependent dynamics through an oblique electric field in vertically aligned liquid crystal director surrounded by patterned polymer walls

Voltage-dependent liquid crystal textures in a homeotropically aligned nematic liquid crystal (LC) device, where the chiral-doped liquid crystal with negative dielectric anisotropy is locked by polymer walls with crossed polarizers, have been investigated. The device shows wide viewing angle characteristics with advantages that it is free from rubbing process and spacer. The time-resolved LC textures show that they are not stable enough during an instantaneous reorientation of LC when a voltage is applied. To improve dynamic characteristics, we propose advanced cell structure where the bend and twist deformation is controlled by polymer wall plus an oblique electric field through patterned electrode. Consequently, dynamic characteristics of the device are greatly improved.     

Plasmon electro-optic effect in a subwavelength metallic nanograting with a nematic liquid crystal

The electro-optic effect in hybrid structures based on subwavelength metallic nanogratings in contact with a layer of a nematic liquid crystal has been experimentally studied. Metallic gratings are fabricated in the form of interdigitated electrodes, which makes it possible to use them not only as optical elements but also for the production of an electric field in a thin surface region of the layer of the liquid crystal. It has been shown that, owing to the electric-field-induced reorientation of molecules of the liquid crystal near the surface of the grating, it is possible to significantly control the spectral features of the transmission of light, which are caused by the excitation of surface plasmons. The electro-optic effect is superfast for liquid crystal devices because a change in the optical properties of the system requires the reorientation of molecules only in a very thin surface layer of the liquid crystal.     

Second harmonic generation by femtosecond pulses in nematic liquid crystal

The second harmonic generation (SHG) by the femtosecond pulses in a nematic liquid crystal has been experimentally studied. It was found that the SHG by a light beam occurs in the bulk of the liquid crystal sample, is accompanied by a luminescence, and is only observed in the presence of the light-induced director reorientation.     

Dynamics of twist effect in a dual-frequency nematic liquid crystal

The dynamics of the electrooptical 90° twist effect in a dual-frequency nematic liquid crystal is investigated for wavelengths of 0.65 and 1.55μ m. It is shown that the boundary conditions of the interaction between the phases affect the optical threshold of the twist effect, the contrast, and the working voltage range. The switching time of the twist effect from the off to the on state upon a variation of the amplitude of a rectangular dc voltage pulse from 15 to 50 V changes from 1.5 to 0.3 ms for a thickness of the nematic crystal layer of about 7 μ m. The minimal time of switching from the “on” to the “off” state was 3 ms in the case when relaxation of molecules in a cell with asymmetric boundary conditions was controlled electrically. The dynamic range of transmittance variation at a wavelength of 1.55 μm extended to 30 dB.     

Optical bistability in a photonic crystal with a liquid-crystal defect

We investigate experimentally the nonlinear transmission of a photonic crystal with a nematic liquid-crystal defect upon reorientation of the director in a field of cw laser radiation propagating at a certain angle to the sample. At different detunings, we observed the regimes of bistability, differential gain, and optical limiting. The resonance transmission peaks were detuned from the laser radiation wavelength by changing the angle of light incidence onto the sample. The value of nematic nonlinear constant n ₂ determined from the experimental data is in good agreement with the theoretical estimate.     

Comparison of optical compensations based on discotic liquid crystals with linear and non-linear orientation for wide viewing angle twisted nematic liquid crystal displays

Optical compensation film using discotic liquid crystals has been commercialized to suppress light leakage of twisted nematic (TN) liquid crystal (LC) cells in the dark state when the viewing directions are off-axes. In the conventional film, the tilt angle variation of the discotic LC layers is linear, whereas that of the rod-like LC layers in the TN cell is non-linear with twist alignment. We investigated the optical compensation effects in terms of iso-contrast ratio, gray scale inversion and color shift with linear and non-linear orientation in a tilt angle or twist and non-twist orientation on TN-LC cells. The results showed that the optical compensation with non-linear orientation exhibited an improved performance in suppressing light leakage in the dark state.     

液晶磁致旋光的研究

利用矩阵方法分析了液晶的旋光效应，导出了液晶旋光的矩阵表示. 利用JG-3型连续可调谐磁场仪搭建实验装置，红外1350 nm激光器做光源，测量了偏振光通过磁场作用下BL-009型向列相液晶的旋光角，详细分析了磁场对液晶旋光性能的影响. 通过实验测试，对液晶的阈值磁场强度进行了讨论，同时对实验结果进行了理论上的分析，得出了液晶旋光角随磁场与液晶盒表面夹角而变化的结论，验证了液晶分子轴的旋转方向与磁场的方向无关，这为更好的研究液晶的特性以及液晶器件的设计具有重要的参考价值. 关键词： 液晶 矩阵 磁致旋光     

用偏光干涉法动态测量扭曲向列型液晶指向矢

提出一种基于双折射晶体劈的偏振态实时测量方法,并将该方法用于扭曲向列型液晶透射光的偏振态分析,实现了液晶分子平均指向矢的动态测量.利用基于晶体劈的偏光干涉法将待测光的偏振参量编码为两组干涉条纹,通过对干涉条纹定位实现偏振态的实时测量;再根据液晶指向矢的倾角、扭转角与透射光偏振态之间的关系,推算出液晶分子平均指向矢的动态信息.本实验测量液晶指向矢的速度为每秒5次,液晶平均指向矢的倾角、扭转角的测量准确度达到0.2°.本文研究为液晶分子平均指向矢的动态测量提供了一种有效途径.