Guided Optical Waves in a Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Layer: A Birefringence Analysis of Molecular Orientation on the Switching Process
作者:
S. Ito,
F. Kremer,
T. Fischer,
W. Knoll,
期刊:
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
(Taylor Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 264,
issue 1
页码: 99-114
ISSN:1058-725X
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1080/10587259508037305
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Ferroelectric liquid crystals;molecular orientation;guided optical waves;birefringence
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Guided optical waves are very sensitive to the alteration of optical properties of dielectric media. In this report, we demonstrate the use of guided waves for studying dynamic behavior of ferroelectric liquid crystals. Propagating light in the anisotropic medium suffers a birefringent effect, which causes coupling ofp- ands-polarized light. Theoretical calculations, based on the Maxwell equations, successfully describe this phenomena, using a dielectric tensor diagonal in molecular coordinates, which is transformed to the laboratory coordinate system by three Euler angles. The waveguide measurements are able to probe the molecular orientation and movement of the liquid crystal molecules in the three dimensional coordinate system. This method has been used to examine the switching behavior in the SmC* phase. The bistable states and the path of the molecular swing under alternating external electric fields are well characterized by the reflected intensity of single and double frequency modulation.
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