Optomechanics of liquid crystals for dynamical optical response of photonic structures
Soft Condensed Matter
2015-05-18 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
We show that the mechanical effect of light on the orientational ordering of the crystalline axis of a mesophase can be used to control the dynamics of the optical response of liquid crystal infiltrated photonic structures. The demonstration is made using a one-dimensional periodic structure whose periodicity is broken by the presence of a nematic liquid crystal defect layer. In this study we report on output light polarization and/or intensity dynamics that depends on the initial molecular ordering and incident light wavelength and intensity.
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@article{arxiv.1002.2052,
title = {Optomechanics of liquid crystals for dynamical optical response of photonic structures},
author = {A. E. Miroshnichenko and E. Brasselet and D. O. Krimer and Yu. S. Kivshar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.2052},
year = {2015}
}