Repozytorium

Pulsed laser induced switching of birefringence in nematic phase of photochromic molecules.

Autorzy

J. Myśliwiec

Maciej Czajkowski

Stanisław Bartkiewicz

Krystian Żygadło

Zbigniew Galewski

Bouchta Sahraoui

Rok wydania

2011

Czasopismo

Applied Physics Letters

Numer woluminu

98

Strony

081105 /1-081105 /3

DOI

10.1063/1.3559613

Kolekcja

Naukowa

Język

Angielski

Typ publikacji

Artykuł

Streszczenie

Fast and dynamic switching of liquid-crystalline photochromic system birefringence induced by pulsed laser has been observed. The system consisted of photochromic molecules of 4-heptyl-4′-methoxyazobenzene showing liquid-crystalline nematic state close to the room temperature. Experiment of dynamic birefringence switching was done in optical Kerr effect (OKE) set-up, where for the sample excitation picosecond pulsed laser was used. Simultaneously, HeNe laser was served as a probe beam source. Measurements were done for different voltages applied to the sample. Rise time constant was in the range of microseconds. Full reversibility of the OKE signal was observed.

Adres publiczny

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3559613

Strona internetowa wydawcy

https://www.aip.org/

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