向列相液晶中空间光孤子的研究进展

对向列相液晶中空间光孤子产生机制进行了详细的阐述，并对其目前的研究进展进行了概括介绍。最后，对它们的应用前景进行了展望。     

向列相液晶中空间光孤子的观测

分别以He-Ne激光器、半导体激光器和Ar⁺激光器作为光源照射液晶材料，在低光强入射的情况下均观察到了光束的自聚焦现象以及空间光孤子的形成，观察到了长度l>5mm的孤子波和多模空间光孤子，并对空间孤子的产生条件及特性进行了讨论. 关键词： 自聚焦 空间光孤子 向列相液晶     

高性能双稳态向列相液晶显示器

提出四种可实际应用的非垂直偏振片配置的双稳态扭曲向列相液晶显示模式.这些显示模式大都具有高稳定性,并能提供高对比度和高亮态透过率.有些甚至可达到扭曲向列相液晶显示器的显示效果,实现黑白显示.这些显示模式性能优于已提出的垂直偏振片配置的其他双稳态向列相液晶显示模式. 关键词： 双稳态向列相 液晶显示 参数空间     

微扰变分法对光折变空间孤子相互作用的研究

利用微扰变分法研究了光折变屏蔽孤子的相干相互作用,得出了光折变空间屏蔽孤子在晶体中同相相互作用时发生第一次碰撞的位置和碰撞周期解析表达式,并对孤子同相和反相相互作用的物理机制进行了分析.研究结果表明:当两孤子尾部交叠时就会发生相互作用,相互作用力的大小与孤子的相对强度、相对间距以及晶体外加电场的大小有关.孤子的相对强度越大、相对间距越小以及晶体外加电场越强,孤子间相互作用力越大;相互作用力的性质与初始相位差有关,同相相互吸引,反相相互排斥.     

扭曲向列相液晶电光效应的研究

分析了扭曲向列相液晶的电光效应.采用溴钨灯作为光源,运用光栅单色仪选择380~1 100 nm波段的光进行照射,测量在0~8 V电压条件下扭曲向列相液晶对于不同波长入射光的透射率.     

竞争非局域非线性向列相液晶中亮孤子

针对热效应的非局域程度和分子取向效应的非局域程度不等的情况,利用JUNG P S等提出的模型研究了具有竞争非局域非线性效应的向列相液晶中的亮孤子特性.通过变分法得到光束振幅、宽度、啁啾和位相等参数随传输距离的变化规律,即光束振幅和宽度与入射光的功率息息相关,光束宽度随热非局域程度增加单调递减,随热非线性系数增加单调递增.在此基础上给出和入射光束功率密切相关的势能函数.利用势能函数预言了入射光束功率越大亮孤子宽度越小.通过解变分方程组可得,入射光功率为4或8时,光束宽度均随传输距离周期性震荡.这两个震荡趋势有明显的区别,功率为4时光束传输过程中宽度始终大于或等于初始宽度,功率为8时光束传输过程中宽度始终小于或等于初始宽度.该变化规律与数值仿真结论一致.     

负性介电各向异性向列相液晶中空间光孤子的理论研究

对非局域非线性介质向列相液晶中介电各向异性为负时的情况进行了研究.理论研究表明,负性介电各向异性的向列相液晶具有负的非线性系数.文中给出了其空间非局域响应特征宽度和非线性系数的表达式,并求出了其非局域响应函数;其次,用数值计算的方法给出了其空间孤子的传输结果.最后,研究了光束功率和偏置电压的改变对负性介电各向异性向列相液晶中光束传输的影响,发现偏置电压的改变会导致光束在负性介电各向异性液晶中形成孤子所需的临界功率发生改变.     

微扰法求解铅玻璃中的涡旋空间光孤子

在量子力学的微扰理论框架下,利用微扰法求解得到了1+2维强非局域非线性介质——铅玻璃中二阶微扰修正的"类拉盖尔高斯型"涡旋孤子的近似解析解。从非局域非线性薛定谔方程(NNLSE)出发,以铅玻璃中的真实折射率与Snyder-Mitchell(SM)模型中描述的抛物线型折射率的差值为微扰,以SM模型中的拉盖尔高斯孤子解为基态解,求得了铅玻璃材料中二阶微扰修正的"类拉盖尔高斯型"涡旋孤子的解析解。拓扑荷值分别为1、2、3、4的微扰修正的"类拉盖尔高斯型"光孤子比未加微扰的拉盖尔高斯型光孤子更稳定,非常接近孤子真解的传输行为。     

扭曲向列相液晶电光效应的微观机理研究

为了探究液晶电光效应的微观机理,以扭曲向列相液晶为研究对象,对液晶分子的变化情况进行了理论分析。运用连续体弹性理论分析了扭曲向列相液晶分子的指向矢取向变化,并对液晶电光效应曲线不同区间范围液晶微观结构的变化进行了系统分析。结果表明:液晶分子在零电场条件下的扭曲是均匀的;当外加电场大于某一值时,液晶分子开始转向,液晶产生电光效应。研究结果对液晶显示器件设计和深入理解液晶电光效应机理具有一定的指导意义。     

Calculating the dielectric anisotropy of nematic liquid crystals: a reinvestigation of the Maier——Meier theory

This paper investigates the average dielectric permittivity (\overline ε ) in the Maier--Meier theory for calculating the dielectric anisotropy (Δε) of nematic liquid crystals. For the reason that \overline ε of nematics has the same expression as the dielectric permittivity of the isotropic state, the Onsager equation for isotropic dielectric was used to calculate it. The computed \overline ε shows reasonable agreement with the results of the numerical methods used in the literature. Molecular parameters, such as the polarizability and its anisotropy, the dipole moment and its angle with the molecular long axis, were taken from semi-empirical quantum chemistry (MOCPAC/AM1) modeling. The calculated values of Δε according to the Maier--Meier equation are in good agreement with the experimental results for the investigated compounds having different core structures and polar substituents.     

向列相液晶中强非局域空间光孤子的相互作用

在数值和实验上研究了向列相液晶中空间光孤子的相互作用.向列相液晶中的响应函数为指数衰减函数,这不同于Snyder-Mitchell模型.数值模拟发现向列相液晶中的孤子相互作用仍然满足交叉点位置与输入功率的平方根成反比,强非局域下的Snyder-Mitchell模型交叉点位置与两束光的间距无关,而在向列相液晶中交叉点位置与两束光的间距有关;在实验上发现,向列相液晶中两束光交叉点的位置与输入功率平方根成反比,还和形成孤子的临界功率以及两束光之间的间距有关. 关键词： 强非局域非线性 向列相液晶 孤子相互作用 交叉点     

Electric-field-induced steering in soliton direction of propagation in chiral nematic liquid crystals

In this work we demonstrate the properties of spatial solitary waves in chiral nematic liquid crystals with an external electric field. Such self-trapped beams, called nematicons, were created due to the optical reorientation nonlinearity for a light power of a few tens of milliwatts. We show that the direction of propagation of such nematicons can be changed by applying an external electric field. Additionally, this effect can be modified by changing the input polarization of the light beam. The experimental results were obtained in four independent guiding layers created by a chiral nematic structure.     

Temperature dependence of ratio between dielectric anisotropy and order parameter in fluorinated nematic liquid crystals

Temperature dependence of ratio between dielectric anisotropy and order parameter of fluorinated nematic liquid crystal is investigated by using a semi-empirical molecular orbital package that can accurately calculate an angle between molecular dipole moment and long axis. We optimize the molecular conformations with three semi-empirical Hamiltonians AM1, PM3 and PM5, and then make a comparison between computational results and experimental measurements. It is shown that the results obtained from AM1 method are in good agreement with the measurements. The present study offers an applicable method to predict the dielectric properties of liquid crystal material.     

Temperature dependence of ratio between dielectric anisotropy and order parameter in fluorinated nematic liquid crystals

Temperature dependence of ratio between dielectric anisotropy and order parameter of fluorinated nematic liquid crystal is investigated by using a semi-empirical molecular orbital package that can accurately calculate an angle between molecular dipole moment and long axis. We optimize the molecular conformations with three semi-empirical Hamiltonians AM1, PM3 and PM5, and then make a comparison between computational results and experimental measurements. It is shown that the results obtained from AM1 method are in good agreement with the measurements. The present study offers an applicable method to predict the dielectric properties of liquid crystal material.     

Simulation of 2-D lateral light propagation in nematic-liquid-crystal cells with tilted molecules and nonlinear reorientational effect

In the general case the optical tensor of a nematic liquid crystal consists of nine nonzero elements, which makes it difficult to calculate light propagation in a liquid-crystal cell. For a two-dimensional (2-D) problem with TM polarization and a parallel liquid-crystal orientation where the molecules are only tilted and not twisted, the full problem can be calculated by using one magnetic field component, thus reducing the problem to a scalar one. This geometry is used to simulate the self-focusing effect which can lead to the generation of spatial optical solitary waves. This self-focusing occurs due to the optical nonlinear effect of field-induced director reorientation. Due to nondiagonal elements of the optical tensor, however, it is expected that the Poynting vector will deviate from the original propagation direction. Our simulations reveal that, in this case, the deviation will not cause the loss of the soliton-like beam propagation regime, but will rather give rise to a transverse undulating behaviour.     

The （l＋l）-dimensional spatial solitons in media with weak nonlinear nonlocality

We study the propagation of (1+1)-dimensional spatial soliton in a nonlocal Kerr-type medium with weak nonlocality. First, we show that an equation for describing the soliton propagation in weak nonlocality is a nonlinear Schr?dinger equation with perturbation terms. Then, an approximate analytical solution of the equation is found by the perturbation method. We also find some interesting properties of the intensity profiles of the soliton.     

(1+2)维强非局域空间光孤子的相互作用

强非局域空间光孤子是指满足强非局域条件的空间孤子.在Snyder和Mitchell工作的基础上，获得了不共面对称斜入射(1+2)维强非局域空间光孤子对相互作用问题的精确解析解.结果表明，光束初始中心距离在大范围尺度内变化时，双孤子的演化都能形成类似DNA结构的稳定缠绕，这种稳定缠绕的结构与双孤子的初始相位差无关；光束中心在横截面上的投影轨迹一般是一个斜椭圆，通过改变两光束的初始中心距离和倾斜度可以控制该椭圆轨迹的变化.指出了利用(1+2)维强非局域空间光孤子的相互作用特性实现平面全光开关和全光互联的潜在可能性. 关键词： (1+2)维非局域非线性介质 空间光孤子的相互作用 全光开关 全光互联