棱镜晶体旋转法测量液晶器件大预倾角

晶体旋转法是测量液晶分子预倾角的常用方法,但不适用于测量20°~70°之间的预倾角。提出一种棱镜辅助晶体旋转法测量预倾角的方案。把液晶盒夹在两个直角棱镜间,入射光从前面棱镜一个面入射,经过液晶盒从后面棱镜出射,改变入射光的入射角,测量出射光透过率,能得到对应双折射相位差为零、透射光强最大的入射角,进而由几何光学关系确定预倾角。数值模拟和实验结果显示该方法具有可行性。     

液晶盒双折射效应的测量与应用

介绍了测量液晶盒双折射效应的实验方法,并利用此方法推测了液晶盒的表面锚泊方向并测量了液晶盒的扭曲角,探讨了应用此方法校准偏振片起偏方向的可能性.     

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.     

可调谐液晶法-珀滤光片的研究

提出了一种可用于密集波分复用系统中的新型可调谐滤光片的设计方法,该设计利用了液晶的双折射现象,以及液晶盒内法-珀效应,从理论上分析了器件的光谱特性,计算了液晶分子的折射率调制和其分子转动角度的关系.并对器件进行了性能测试.实验结果与理论吻合较好.     

液晶双折射实验

本文介绍测试液晶双折射的见和ne的一种实验方法，它可作为使学生了解光学双折射现象和现代液晶显示技术（LCD）的一个新的物理实验。     

太赫兹场致液晶双折射效应的研究

液晶材料是信息显示设备中的重要组成部分,其在外场作用下所表现的高双折射特性是其被用于显示的关键条件。利用强太赫兹波作为外场,激发液晶5CB材料的双折射效应。结合太赫兹时域光谱系统通过测量不同偏振的太赫兹波的透过率,研究了太赫兹场致液晶在太赫兹波段的双折射效应。分析了液晶的双折射效应与外场强的变化关系、频率响应特性等方面。研究结果表明在强场太赫兹波激发下,液晶的双折射现象随场强的增大而增大,双折射值与外部场强平方成正比,且液晶5CB对于太赫兹激发的双折射效应存在一定的阈值。     

液晶全漏导模透射率的实验研究

实验研究了由棱镜、折射率匹配液及扭曲排列和垂直排列向列相液晶盒构成的液晶全漏导模的透射率。随着施加在液晶盒上的电压不同,得到了依赖于角度变化的透射率（包括偏振保存和偏振转换）的实验曲线。这些曲线由液晶指向矢在液晶盒中的分布直接控制,由此可以证实液晶全漏导模透射率同样可以用来探索液晶盒内部的细微变化。     

液晶彩色显示

七十年代,液晶显示器(LCD)由于其独具的低电压、低功耗工作特性而得到迅速发展,其中扭曲场效应黑白显示已被广泛应用.近年来,日本、英国、瑞士、西德等国对液晶彩色显示的研究也相当活跃,并在应用于手表电视等方面获得成功. 液晶彩色显示与黑白显示一样,都是利用加电场后液晶分子排列状态发生变化,液晶盒的光学性质也随之变化的原理而构成液晶显示元件的.目前已经开发的液晶彩色显示技术按其工作方式可归为四大类:二色性方式、电控双折射方式、扭曲方式和胆甾方式.它们利用的主要液晶光学性质为:二色性、双折射、选择性反射、圆二色散和旋…     

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     

不同取向的向列型液晶盒的光电响应曲线

测量了从0°到90°摩擦取向的向列型液晶盒的光电响应曲线,发现在透过率随电压的变化过程中存在较大振荡现象,且振荡幅度与液晶盒的取向相关;通过对液晶盒出射光的偏振状态测量,发现液晶盒出射的椭圆偏振光的偏振方向会影响液晶盒的性能,且影响的强弱与液晶盒的摩擦取向有关.从理论上对该现象进行了定性解释.     

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。     

Programmable agile beam steering based on a liquid crystal prism

To meet the application need for agile precision beam steering, a novel liquid crystal prism device with a simple structure, convenient control, low cost and applicable performance is presented, and analysed theoretically and experimentally. The relationships between the optical path and the thickness of the liquid crystal cell under different voltages are investigated quantitatively by using a theoretical model. Analysis results show that the optical path profile of the liquid crystal prism has a quasi-linear slope and the standard deviation of the linear slope is less than 16 nm. The slope ratio can be changed by a voltage, which achieves the programmable beam steering and control. Practical liquid crystal prism devices are fabricated. Their deflection angles and wavefront profiles with different voltages are experimentally tested. The results are in good agreement with the simulated results. The results imply that the agile beam steering in a scope of 100 μrad with a micro-rad resolution is substantiated in the device. The two-dimensional beam steering is also achieved by cascading two liquid crystal prism devices.     

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.     

An integrated liquid crystal phase modulator for speckle shearing interferometry

A versatile phase-stepping speckle shearing interferometer is described that employed a calibrated liquid crystal as its phase modulator, operating at 514 nm. By implementation of an algorithm upon phase-stepped shearographic images it was possible to create a phase map, that provided quantitative data regarding the derivative of any out-of-plane surface displacement. The use of a liquid crystal phase modulator in an optical arrangement had advantages over alternative methods. However, it is normally limited by spatial non-uniformity of the cells birefringence. The birefringence for a nematic liquid crystal cell was determined in several cross-sectional locations, before the cell was successfully integrated into a Michelson speckle shearing interferometer. Such a scheme offers flexibility in the shearing angle, and a measurement system that may operate over an extended range of monitoring wavelengths.     

Study of optical parameters of two fluorinated isothiocyanato nematic liquid crystals exhibiting high birefringence

Optical studies have been carried out on two fluorinated isothiocyanato nematic liquid crystal (LC) compounds 4′-butylcyclohexyl-3, 5-difluoro-4-isothiocyanatobiphenyl and 4′-pentylcyclohexyl-3, 5-difluoro-4-isothiocynatobiphenyl. Transition temperatures of the two samples were confirmed using a polarizing microscope. The two LC compounds were found to exhibit fairly high clearing temperatures. Measurements of refractive indices of the two compounds were done by using thin prism method with He-Ne laser beam of wavelength 630 nm. Birefringence of the two LC compounds was calculated from the measured refractive indices. Both the compounds are found to display fairly high values of birefringence. Validation of a modified four-parameter model, based on Vuks equation describing the temperature dependence of refractive indices of the two liquid crystals, is also presented in this paper. The model is validated by fitting the experimentally measured values of refractive indices, birefringence and average refractive indices of the two nematic LCs with the theoretical values. In this paper, the calculation of order parameters of the LCs is presented by using two methods: direct extrapolation method based solely on the birefringence data and by using modified Vuks method based on Haller’s extrapolation. As observed from the obtained results, this procedure of calculating order parameter gives very reasonable results.     

Complementary interference method for determining optical parameters of liquid crystals

ABSTRACT

Wedge cells of small apex angle, filled with liquid crystals, were used to determining optical characteristics as functions of temperature for three liquid crystalline mixtures recently produced and a reference nematic. The interference fringes appearing in polarised monochromatic light (of sodium yellow line) normally incident on the cell were exploited to measure the ordinary and extraordinary refractive indices in the reflection mode and birefringence in the transmission mode. The measurements were repeated using Abbe's refractometer for 6CHBT as the reference to verifying the precision. Additionally the order parameter was computed from birefringence as a function of temperature. The results confirm the usefulness of the method and provide the properties of two nematic liquid crystals of small and large birefringence and one smectic liquid crystal of medium birefringence, recently produced. The experimental systems served also to investigating phase transition between the liquid crystals and the isotropic liquid at near-clearing temperature.     

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%.