Enhancement of optical nonlinearity in a guest-host system by nematic ordering |
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Authors: | Byoungchoo Park Sang Young Eom Sin-Doo Lee Dong Hoon Choi Soo Young Park Nakjoong Kim |
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Affiliation: | (1) Physics Department, Sogang University, C.P.O. Box 1142, 100-611 Seoul, Korea;(2) Korea Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 131, 130-650 Seoul, Korea |
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Abstract: | Second-harmonic generation (SHG) has been studied for understanding the enhancement mechanism for the second-order optical nonlinearity by the nematic (or axial) ordering in a liquid crystal doped with one-dimensional nonlinear optical (NLO) organic molecules. An extended version of the Maier-Saupe mean-field theory for nematic liquid crystals was developed to obtain analytical expressions for the second-order NLO coefficients in terms of the axial order, the polar order and the effective nematic potential. From the SHG data in a guest-host system composed ofN,N'-dimethylaminonitrostilbene molecules (0.5% by weight) and a liquid crystal, the enhancement of the second-order NLO coefficient,d33, by nematic ordering becomes almost 3, which agrees well with our theoretical predictions. |
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