Published September 4, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Optical-induced Freedericksz transition of nematic liquid crystal doped with porphyrin (ZnTPP)

  • 1. School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, GuangZhou 510006 (China)
  • 2. College of Chemistry and Life Science, China Three Gorges University, YiChang, Hubei Province 44300 (China)
  • 3. State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Zhongshan University, GuangZhou 510275 (China)
  • 4. Department of Physics, ZhongShan University, GuangZhou 510275 (China)

Description

In this Letter, we studied the optical-induced Freedericksz transition of 5CB doped with 1% volume fraction of bio-molecule, porphyrinozinc(II) (ZnTPP). Excited by Ti:sappire laser with the 82 MHz repetition rate and 100 fs pulse duration, the optical Freedericksz threshold of a 23.6 μm-thickness planar alignment sample occurred at an intensity level of 0.35 mW/mm2 in contrast to the normally observed 83 mW/mm2 value for pure 5CB

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DOI
10.1016/j.physleta.2006.04.048;
PII
S0375-9601(06)00619-0;

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Journal Title
Physics Letters. A
Journal Volume
357
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 159-162
ISSN
0375-9601
CODEN
PYLAAG

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